Baghdad-based Ruya Foundation launches first online database for Iraqi artists

While many contemporary Iraqi artists have fled their war-torn homeland, those who stayed have been largely cut off from an international audience of curators and collectors. Now the Baghdad-based Ruya Foundation is giving a platform to artists working in Iraq and the diaspora by launching the first online archive of their works.The Ruya Artist Database currently features 380 artists (220 of those are based in Iraq) working across all media, from video art to reinventions of traditional textile