What Lingers in the Artist's Mind: The Experiments and Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group

Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art · Doha, Qatar · 25 Oct 2026 to 6 Feb 2027

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Artworks and archival material tracing the Baghdad Modern Art Group, the Iraqi collective founded in 1951 by Jewad Selim and Shakir Hassan Al Said, and its influence on later Iraqi artists.

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