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‘Art Critics’: December Cartoon

For the month of December, Ruya has commissioned a weekly cartoon series on Art Critics, by Baghdad-based caricaturist Khudair Alhimyari. Below, the artist and the audience are sat together but the critic’s seat is empty. The artist calls out ‘We miss you!” to the critic. Below, the media asks the critic: ‘Could you please give…

Exhibition

Two Artist-Led Exhibitions in Sulaymaniya Signal an Artistic Revival in the City

The Shaab Teaouse is a popular teahouse in the city of Sulaymaniya. Opened in the 1950s, its patrons include famous Kurdish poets such as Faek Bekas, his son Sherko Bekas and Akhol Shaeb. During the civil war in the 1990s, the teahouse served as the unofficial headquarters of the PUK. Hung in several rows along…

Exhibition

The Basra Museum Opens its First Gallery After Over Twenty Years of Inactivity.

The Basra Museum opened its first gallery in September 2016 after over twenty years of inactivity. The opening of the new gallery, with 440 artefacts and objects from Basra’s excavated sites, represents the first major milestone in an eight-year project to reinstate the museum, by the British Army, the UK-based charity the Friends of Basra…

Exhibition

‘Uncertain States: Artistic Strategies in States of Emergencies’ at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin

In a poem written in exile, the playwright Bertolt Brecht, who fled persecution in Germany in 1933 for his pro-communist plays and writings, likens his work to that of a reporter: The words which they call out to each other I report. What the mother says to her son What the employer tells the employee…