Toronto, Canada (CNN) One piece shows a woman wearing a loosely tied hijab, her peroxide-blonde hair hanging in front. Both works -- along with 25 others -- are on display at Toronto's Aga Khan Museum as part of "Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians," a new exhibition of Iranian art. This diversity is the beauty of how the exhibition was curated, says Mohammed Afkhami, the Iranian financier and philanthropist who provided the works from his private collection of more than 300 pieces of post-revolution Iranian art. The exhibition is meant to offer an alternative to what's typically shown in news coverage of Iran and the Middle East as a whole. Afkhami believes the collection will help to confront and change the stereotypes North Americans hold about Iranian people.

Source: CNN March 06, 2017 11:37 UTC