Tragically, war has become the defining influence on the artistic community in Iraq. And the Baghdad Museum that held the country’s most important collection of modern art is now rubble.

Such is the state of Iraq’s modern art collection, renamed the National Museum of Modern Art in 2006 yet still an institution that exists mostly as an idea. That it exists at all is owed largely ...

See About archive blog posts. Despite gritty, overcrowded cities like Baghdad and Kirkuk, Iraq remains primarily an agricultural country, and even its city dwellers mostly maintain close ties to ...

Painted in the 1970s, toward the end of the heyday of Iraq’s modern art movement, it survived the chaos that followed the 2003 US-led invasion when the museum’s 8,000-strong collection was dec ...

Cultural heritage has become a cornerstone of Iraq's post-Saddam foreign policy. But that same heritage can be more divisive ...

"The museums in Iraq are the keepers of the wealth of Iraqi ... "There's such an emotional element to this," he said. "(Art) brings different cultures together. It's a rather exceptional space ...

There is a fascinating backstory to the exhibition, involving an art-loving US soldier on a tour of duty in Iraq, who obtains permission from his commanding officer to track down local artists and ...

“When I touched down in Iraq, I was prepared to die,” Casper ... Casper decided to change his major to art, thinking it would be an easy degree for him to complete. “I didn’t want to ...

After completing the course, they continued to develop their project through the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Summer Fellowship ... The exhibit serves as a way for Iraq’s displaced Indigenous ...

Painted in the 1970s, toward the end of the heyday of Iraq's modern art movement, it survived the chaos that followed the 2003 US-led invasion when the museum's 8,000-strong collection was ...