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The Ghost in the Baghdad Museum, The New York Times, April 2, 2006 by Roger Cohen. Thousands of Iraqi artifacts found, CNN, May 7, 2003. Missing Antiquities: Loss Estimates Are Cut on Iraqi Artifacts, but Questions Remain, The New York Times, May 1, 2003. Relics: Experts' Pleas to Pentagon Didn't Save Museum, The New York Times, April 16, 2003.
He attended the Jaafari secondary school at the same time as he was teaching painting at the Eastern Middle School. His early art education was at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad where he graduated in 1950 and later studied abroad at Syracuse University New York graduating in 1956. [1] He showed an early talent for drawing.
The Baghdadi Museum (Arabic: المتحف البغدادي) is a local history museum and a tourist landmark located in and about the capital city of Baghdad, Iraq. [1] [2] It was established in 1940. [3] The museum is situated near the River Tigris on Al-Rusafa district in one of the old buildings of the area that goes back to the year 1869. [3]
He became the international face of the plight of ancient sites and artefacts in Iraq, many of which were stolen or destroyed during the invasion. [8] In December 2008, Youkhanna was decisive in preventing the sale of royal Neo-Assyrian [9] earrings from the world-famous Nimrud treasures at Christie's art auction in New York.
Mosul Museum is the second largest museum in Iraq after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. It containins ancient Mesopotamian artifacts, mainly Assyrian . National Museum of Modern Art (formerly the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art) - established in 1962, it was badly damaged by vandals with many important artworks looted in 2003 [ 121 ]
Ismail Fatah Al-Turk ("Ismail Fatah") (1934 or 1938–2004) was an Iraqi painter and sculptor born in Basra, Iraq, noted for his abstract art, monumental sculpture, and public works and as part of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, which fostered a sense of national identity. [1] His monument, al-Shaheed Monument is the most iconic public monument ...
His work is collected by major museums, such as Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, the Guggenheim in New York, and Sharjah Art Museum. Select list of paintings. Cubist Cockerel , Oil on board (53 x 56 cm), 1955; Window to the Word || Hurrufiyya , Mixed media on cardboard laid onto canvas (125 x 125 cm), 1966; Coffee Corner, (64 x 76 cm ...
Alwar Balasubramaniam in Knowledge of the Past Is the Key to the Future, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Rummana Hussain in The Tomb of Begum Hazrat Mahal, Institute of Arab & Islamic Art, New York, NY Nasreen Mohamedi in Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France