Berlin cancels show of Tehran’s Modern art

Berlin museum authorities have cancelled the exhibition of Modern art from collection of Tehrans Museum of Contemporary Art after Iranian authorities failed to meet a deadline to issue export permits for loans of paintings by Picasso, Pollock, Rothko and Francis Bacon, the majority of which have not been shown in the West for decades.Further delays to the Berlin State Museums exhibition plans couldnt be justified, says Hermann Parzinger, the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundatio