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British Geologist Faces Death Penalty in Iraq on Smuggling Charges

by Elaine Velie May 13, 2022May 13, 2022

Jim Fitton has been in custody since March, when Iraqi officials found 12 small shards of pottery in his luggage.

Posted inNews

US Restitutes 17,000 Looted Artifacts to Iraq

by Hakim Bishara July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

“This is the largest return of antiquities to Iraq,” said Iraq’s culture minister Hassan Nazim.

Posted inArt

Michael Rakowitz Makes a Life Out of Fragments

by Seph Rodney April 11, 2021April 9, 2021

Rakowitz has installed at the Wellin a partial reconstruction of “Room H” within the Northwest Palace of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud.

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Michael Rakowitz’s Recreations of Art Taken From Iraq

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.

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Artist Edmund de Waal Donates 2,000 Books to Iraqi Library Decimated by ISIS

by Valentina Di Liscia January 26, 2021June 3, 2021

The artist donated his “library of exile” to the Mosul University Library, once one of the largest libraries in West Asia, housing over a million books and rare historical materials before it was destroyed.

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1,500-year-old Archway Partially Collapses in Iraq, Prompting Urgent Calls for Help

by Valentina Di Liscia January 18, 2021January 19, 2021

The director of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage said the Taq Kasra is in “dangerous and critical” condition and needs immediate support to prevent further collapse.

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The British Museum Isn’t Doing Enough to Fight Illegal Antiquities Trafficking

by Michael Press October 27, 2020November 5, 2020

While the museum presents its attempt to identify trafficked antiquities as an altruistic enterprise, its policing of the antiquities market also distracts from its historic role in acquiring looted objects.

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Iraqi Performance Artists Use Silence as a Gesture of Dissent

by Cleo Abramian November 22, 2019November 22, 2019

The Vienna-based group Iraqi Autumn draws attention to the international community’s silence regarding the outbreak of violence in Iraq over the past two months.

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In Response to the British Museum, an Exhibition Demonstrates the High Cost of Iraqi Oil

by Lizzy Vartanian Collier February 28, 2019February 28, 2019

An exhibition at P21 gallery highlights the human consequences of the exploitation of Iraq’s oil reserves, among them, environmental crises, state corruption, and youth unemployment.

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After $31 Million Sale of 3,000-Year-Old Assyrian Relief, Experts and Artists Denounce Christie’s

by Zachary Small November 2, 2018

Critics call the recent sale, which shattered previous world records for Assyrian art sales, a callous example of the art market profiting from suffering in the Middle East. Experts speculate that ISIS’s destruction of cultural heritage sites may have boosted the value of the work.

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A Tragedy Inspires an Impromptu Art Intervention in Iraqi Kurdistan

by David Shook and Bryar Bajalan October 29, 2018

For a week after the Iranian Army’s deadly missile attack on an Iranian Kurdish community, artist Shorsh Ahi and his family slept among the ruins, expanding upon his installation.

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Highway to Conflict: A Photographer Maps Out One of Iraq’s Deadliest Routes

by Cleo Abramian August 1, 2018

“You think of Mosul and you think of a dangerous warzone, when actually 90 percent of it is open green fields, beautiful landscapes, dogs playing, kids out,” the artist says

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