Curator’s Tour June 18, 2008

Join Max Allen in the galleries for a discussion of Battleground.

When the USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Afghan weavers found their world turned upside down, the sky and the earth thick with weaponry. On their rugs, flowers turned into cluster bombs, birds turned into airplanes. The disaster continued during the following ten years of brutal civil war. And it continues today as international forces battle in an ancient land that has exploded. The “war carpets” are a record of these events.

Free with admission.

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