It's hard to even imagine a society that's pretty much devoid of art in everyday life.
In Iraq, where beauty was long suppressed, art flowers amid protests
Abdullah, 18 — a former cleaner in a hospital who asked that his surname not be used because he feared retribution for his involvement in anti-government protests — is now an unofficial art guide to one of the most unlikely galleries imaginable: a 15-story shell of a structure, known locally by all as the Turkish Restaurant building, that looks over the Tigris River.
Where did all this art come from? How is it that a city where beauty and color has been largely suppressed for decades by poverty, and by the oppression or indifference of successive governments, suddenly came to be so alive?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/featu...u2i-story.html
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