Art Museum in Iran Closes After Paper-eating Insects Found Under Frame
The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art has closed temporarily and will undergo fumigation after a video went viral showing paper-eating insects crawling under the glass from of a work on display. State media announced on Thursday that the museum would close for two days. The closure announcement comes a day after the museum issued a formal apology for the incident and said that it had invited art experts to investigate the work and others hanging in the museum.
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“Fortunately, this work was not damaged in any way and no insects were seen in other works of the exhibition either,” the museum said in a statement.
A minimalism exhibit featuring 120 works by 34 renowned contemporary international artists, had recently gone on display at the museum. The silverfish insects were seen crawling underneath the glass frame of a rare photo by the Bernd and Hilla Becher, German photographers.
