Barbara Wien gallery & art bookshop Schöneberger Ufer 65 (3rd floor) 10785 Berlin During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Baghdad’s National Museum of Iraq, the home of a large collection of world heritage objects, was not protected. The unsecured building was looted, and approximately 15,000 objects disappeared, leaving a terrible […]
Day: April 20, 2016
Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden. Photo © Nohra Haime
Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden. Photo © Nohra Haime In the Italian village of Capalbio, in the late nineteen-seventies, two peculiar things happened: the mail started arriving late, and people began whispering about the “monsters” rising up in the hills nearby. At first, the monsters looked like massive, misshapen […]