It is telling of the esteem in which the nonagenarian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian is held in her native Iran that it opened its first museum dedicated to a solo female in her honour last December. Having been effectively exiled during the Iranian revolution, the nonagenarian became a friend of Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, yet only received her first US solo museum exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York in 2015. Her work is based on geometry and the design which emanates from these principles in different materials.
