Iranian art and the U.S. Iran embargo - artnet Magazine

In March 2011, the Leila Heller Gallery in New York City held an exhibition of 38-year-old artist Shirin Fakhim’s provocative found-object sculptures of Tehran streetwalkers, her first solo show in Manhattan. A number of works were sold, for around $10,000 apiece. But Fakhim lives in Iran, which has been targeted with a range of economic sanctions by the U.S. and other countries around the world.