Textiles. Polystyrene cups. Television sets. Rubber. Lightbulbs. Rocks. This selection shows almost how anything can be a used as a material for expression.
Nude painting flourished among Arab artists in the 20th century during a period of cultural renaissance. Now these rarely seen works are on view at the Wallach Art Gallery.
The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University presents Partisans of the Nude: An Arab Genre Art in The Era Of Contest, 1920–1960, the first comprehensive US museum survey of nude genre art by artists in the Middle East and North African region that were formerly Ottoman but not-yet-Arab.