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The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show

The Art Newspaper

All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.

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Strategic or speculative? Once again, art investment funds are on the rise

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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

The Art Newspaper

The Yorkshire gallery is “where we can do more ambitious projects”, Bill Gerrish says, pointing to the re-creation of the sculptor Austin Wright’s studio (a permanent feature) and this summer’s loan show of sculptures from London’s Ben Uri Gallery & Museum and the Modern Art and St Ives exhibition (both 9 July-18 September).

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These stones hold special significance and beauty, and we are enthusiastic about adding exceptional jade and agate pieces to our collection. Old coins and collections: At Sarasota Antique Buyers, we are enthusiastic about old coins and collections. Modern art: Our interest extends to modern art pieces.

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Taxidermists—prized by Damien Hirst—open museum in Amsterdam

The Art Newspaper

Now, two artist-taxidermists and the Vrije Academie cultural education institute have created what they call a "modern wunderkammer ", in a richly restored canal house in Amsterdam. We are addicted to the beauty of collections and of things,” he says. But nature is actually a lot less beautiful than I once thought.

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Home of murdered Pakistani artist Ismail Gulgee becomes a museum

The Art Newspaper

Across South Asia, Modern art receives comparatively little popular or academic attention. It can be very difficult to understand what cannot be seen—many of the finest paintings and sculptures are siloed in private collections in the homes of rich men in Karachi, Mumbai and Dhaka.

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As Iraq's economy shows signs of recovery, a thirst for new art is emerging

The Art Newspaper

Its institutional infrastructure has been hollowed out, and the older generation cleaves to power, not just at the art academies but in commercial galleries and the influential Artists’ Union, which determines shows at the Gulbenkian Collection, Baghdad’s de facto national art centre.