Above: Manuchehr Yektayi - Trees, (1975), from the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

Alireza Sami-Azar, the apprently controversial director of Iran’s Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, handed in his resignation yesterday, reports the Mehr News Service. The Story is light on detail and ominously mentions “dissatisfaction” with Sami-Azar’s decision to exhibit some art and not other art—which seems to us like the job of a curator. Anyway, some artists went to the “Department of Artistic Affairs of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance” to oppose the resignation, so we’re inclined to believe Sami-Azar was shown the resignation was—at least—reluctant.

Curator of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Resigns - Mehr News Agency