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Exhibition 

Sakar Sleman’s new solo show in the Ottoman-period Turkish bath, Hamam Kifri.

The artist Sakar Sleman presented a new solo show and installation in Hamam Kifri, an Ottoman-period Turkish bath in Kifri, Sulaymaniya Province. Sleman creates small objects and installations using organic materials such as coal, earth, wood, cloth and string. In doing so, the artist uses shape, colour, texture and smell to create work that is…
Interview 

Conversation with Pedro Azara, curator of ‘Sumer and the Modern Paradigm’ at the Fundació Miró, Barcelona

The exhibition ‘Sumer and the Modern Paradigm’ at the Fundació Miro, Barcelona, elicits a conversation between Mesopotamian art and the works of modern artists, particularly during the interwar period (1918-1939). Works of artists such as Juan Miró, Henri Moore, Alberto Giacommetti and Willi Baumeister sit alongside Sumerian artefacts and illustrated media of the period. By…
Exhibition 

‘The Lady of Warka and the Archaeology of Meanings’ at the Iraq Museum

It all started with André Malraux’s Imaginary Museum when the photographer Giorgia Fiorio first saw the image of the mask of Warka. Initially discovered in 1939 by the German Archaeological Institute in Uruk, southern Iraq, the head dates back to 3100 BC. For Fiorio, what struck her most is how modern it looks, “like a…