All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group

Join us for the opening reception of All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group in the Art Gallery.

In this exhibition, Curator, Dr. Nada Shabout brings together the artists from the Baghdad Modern Art Group, as well as those whom its work influenced. The group was established in 1951 by influential Iraq artists, Jewad Selim and Shakir Hassan Al Said, and grew to engage many of Iraq’s leading artists, architects, poets, and more. Together they sought to develop a new art form that negotiated a time of globally inflected modernism from Baghdad (est. 762 CE) that traces its lineage to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group will be on view in the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery through June 7.