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Michael Rakowitz’s Recreations of Art Taken From Iraq

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel February 12, 2021February 15, 2021

Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of Art21’s Haunting the West, a short film about Rakowitz’s artistic efforts to end the marginalization of West Asian art and history.

Posted inIn Brief

Iconic 12th-Century Mosque Destroyed During Battle of Mosul

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 21, 2017June 23, 2017

The Grand Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul was destroyed as Iraqi forces were poised to retake the major Iraqi city that has been under ISIS control since 2014.

Posted inArt

New York City Museum Celebrates the Culture of Earthquake-Ravaged Nepal

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 4, 2015May 4, 2015

The Rubin Museum of Art opened an installation of Nepalese art today to launch its Honoring Nepal programming series, which celebrates the culture of the earthquake-devastated country.

A car plows into terracotta warriors in 'Furious Seven' (gif by the author)
Posted inArt

China’s Terracotta Warriors Have a Smashing Cameo in ‘Furious Seven’

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 17, 2015April 17, 2015

The most outrageous action sequence in the new blockbuster Furious Seven ends with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker plowing a car through a platoon of clay figures that look just like China’s Terracotta Army.

Posted inNews

ISIS Video Shows Devastating Destruction of Ancient Assyria’s Capital

by Laura C. Mallonee April 13, 2015

They were removing “signs of idolatry.” That’s what an ISIS fighter said in a video published online Saturday.

Posted inNews

Landmark Sufi Shrine Destroyed by Islamists in Yemen

by Sam Hardy February 11, 2015February 14, 2015

Haykal Bafana reported that “Al Qaeda militants [had] destroyed” the 800-year-old tomb of Sufi saint Sufyan bin Abdullah in Al Hota town, Lahij province, Yemen, on January 27.

Posted inArt

Why Is No One Talking About Libya’s Cultural Destruction?

by Laura C. Mallonee February 2, 2015February 7, 2015

Over the past few years, Libya has been making archaeology headlines not for the exciting new discoveries there, but for the ruthless cultural destruction.

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