Lead  BAGHDAD. The staff of Iraq’s National Museum are struggling to create an inventory of its war-torn collection, so far documenting 20,000 antiquities, less than 10% of its approximately 240,000-strong holdings. These figures have been revealed by Lamia al-Gailani Werr, a London-based scholar who used to work at the museum and recently returned from a visit to Baghdad. At this rate it will take the museum nearly a century to catch up on the backlog...READ MORE all articles 
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 BERLIN. The cliché has it that the Renaissance was the period in which the “individual” came into being. Like all clichés, this is both true and overly simple. Nevertheless, the emergence in 15th-century Italy of the personal portrait as a distinct and polyvalent art form is indisputable. This show of about 160 works, in media such as manuscript illumination, marble sculpture and bronze medals, in addition to the lion’s share of paintings, is a collaboration between Stefan Weppelmann, the curator of early Italian and Spanish paintings in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, and Keith Christiansen, the John Pope-Hennessy chairman of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and between their two institutions... all exhibitions jobs IESA offers two MAs for students wishing to enter the art world one on the history of collecting and one on the contemporary art market. all jobs | 
