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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011

Nov 7, 2019 – Mar 1, 2020
22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101, USA

It’s been almost 30 years since the 1991 Gulf War, and those years brought U.S. sanctions against Iraq as well as the Iraq War of 2003. In “Theater of Operations,” both Iraqi and U.S. artists tell their stories in over 300 works. Culture, politics, identity, oil, the internet, news cycles, and more are the subjects at hand. –-E.C.

Jamal Penjweny, Work from the series “Saddam is Here,” 2010. Courtesy the artist.