Abu dhabi: The NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Art Gallery is set to host a compelling exhibition titled “All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group,” which will be open to the public from 12th February to 7th June.
According to Emirates News Agency, the exhibition is curated by Nada Shabout, a prominent art historian and Senior Investigator at the al Mawrid Arab Centre for the Study of Art, who is also a faculty member at NYU Abu Dhabi. This significant exhibition examines how Iraqi artists developed a modern visual language in Baghdad during a crucial period of nation-building and decolonisation.
Maya Allison, Executive Director of the Art Gallery and Chief Curator at NYU Abu Dhabi, emphasized the importance of the exhibition, stating, “This exhibition speaks to the core mission of the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery as a university museum: to develop and map crucial moments in art history that have yet to be fully studied. Nada Shabout’s curatorial approach treats the exhibition as a form of investigation and knowledge-production, bringing archives to life and laying the groundwork for future scholarship.”
