"I was nine years old, and I felt like I lost that childhood. I felt like I became a kid when I looked at a TV this morning. Burn that image into your mind, his mother told him, knowing the city would never be the same. It was 2003, and mere days later, the United States and its allies would launch their invasion of Iraq, raining airstrikes down on the city."
"Thaddeus Mosley, the self-taught sculptor who passed last Friday at the age of 99. Aaron Short memorializes the magician of wood, who captured the joyful improvisation of jazz in burnished and chiseled forms."
Iraqi artist Ali Eyal, based in Los Angeles, creates work exploring the lasting impact of war on his life. At age nine in 2003, he witnessed Baghdad from a Ferris wheel before the US invasion, an image his mother urged him to remember. The recent bombardment of Iran triggered childhood memories and emotional responses. Eyal's work, including paintings and drawings in the Whitney Biennial, visualizes grief and devastation through surreal, twilit vistas. The newsletter also honors Thaddeus Mosley, a self-taught sculptor who died at 99, known for capturing jazz's joyful improvisation in wood forms. Additionally, Beirut gallery owner Joumana Asseily temporarily closed her space during Israel's bombardment of Lebanon.
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