Maya Jaggi

Resurrecting the Poets of Tbilisi

A new museum tells the story of the Soviet taming of Georgia’s intelligentsia. The echoes today are growing louder.

The Birth of Morocco’s Modern Art Movement

With “Présence Plastique,” the Casablanca Group’s 1969 manifesto exhibition, “we wanted to engage the people… outside the closed circuit of the galleries or the salons—places this audience has never entered,” the six artists declared, in French and Arabic, in the radical journal of art and politics Souffles.

Decolonizing Commemoration: New War Art

Could it be that, in an age of high imperialism, there was genuine equality in war remembrance? Or was the idea that Britain and Empire fought shoulder to shoulder, as brothers-in-arms, to face a democracy in death, a projection back from our own time—itself a kind of airbrushing of history?