Interview: Curator Nada Shabout On the Baghdad Modern Art Group’s Enduring Legacies

"All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group" is at the CCS Bard Galleries through October 19, 2025.

An exhibition installation view displays modern and contemporary artworks by Arab artists across white and blue gallery walls at the CCS Bard Galleries.

“All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group” explores this important chapter of Arab modern art in an expansive survey currently on show at Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies.

Interview: Curator Nada Shabout On the Baghdad Modern Art Group’s Enduring Legacies