Parviz Tanavoli

In this Feb. 9, 2015 photo, Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli stands near one of his sculptures called “Heech on Chair” at the Davis Museum on the campus of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass. Tanavoli, a modern sculptor celebrated for fusing Persian traditions with pop sensibilities, opened the first U.S. retrospective of his work at the museum in Wellesely. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)