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“Pride of the Middle Eastern art scene,” Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli hasn’t had a major U.S. show in forty years but all that is changing with two major exhibits scheduled this spring — one at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, the other at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C