4000 U.S. Fatalities in Iraq – So Far

ByMark Vallen March 23, 2008January 20, 2023

Today the Associated Press reported that the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed the deaths of four U.S. soldiers in Iraq, bringing the American death toll to 4,000. When I posted my very first article on this blog in November of 2004, some 849 U.S. soldiers had been killed in Iraq.

The four American soldiers who lost their lives today died when their patrol vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad. The estimate for Iraqi civilian casualties is anywhere from 89,000 to well over 600,000, depending on the sources quoted. I have no art related anecdote to connect to these cheerless statistics… they offer they own profundities.

Artists and the Afghan war | Artists and the Iraq war

M16 Art Project

ByMark Vallen October 4, 2014April 17, 2023

With its M16 Art Project, the “peace activist” organization Peace One Day, asked 14 contemporary artists “to use decommissioned M16 assault rifles to produce artwork, thereby continuing the story of taking objects of war and using them in support of peace.” The M16 Art Project is the companion exhibition to the earlier AKA Peace exhibit mounted by Peace One Day…

Artists and the Iraq war | Obama’s Arts Policy

Zombie Banks, Art Museums, & War

ByMark Vallen March 3, 2009October 5, 2013

The equation is a simple one, in good economic times people feel they can afford to support the arts, in bad economic times – much less so. I do not mean to frame the question of art purely in financial terms, since some of the greatest art we know of has been created in the most impoverished settings and some…

Artists and the Iraq war | Feminist art | Photomontage

Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful

ByMark Vallen February 14, 2007March 19, 2013

Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, opens March 4th, 2007 at the Geffen Contemporary of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and runs until July 16th, 2007. Organized by MOCA curator Connie Butler, the show features artworks created from 1965 to 1980, by 100 women focused on the status and liberation of women. In one attempt to capture the…

Artists and the Iraq war

Chris Bartlett: Iraqi Detainees

ByMark Vallen September 24, 2014

2014 marks the 10-year anniversary of the release of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison photographs, an event remembered by Iraqi Detainees, an unusual exhibition in Brooklyn, New York. The exhibit of photos by Chris Bartlett is evidence enough that the wounds from the U.S. war against Iraq that began on March 19, 2003 have not yet healed. But as I…

Artists and the Iraq war | Radical Cinema

Lion of the Desert

ByMark Vallen November 10, 2005November 28, 2015

As a rational human being, a humanist and an artist, I offer my heartfelt sympathies to the families and loved ones effected by the terror bombings in Amman, Jordan. It should go without saying that all forms of terrorism are heinous, and that the murder of innocent civilians for political reasons is still simply an act of homicide committed by…

Artists and the Iraq war

Bearing Witness: Photos of the Iraq War

ByMark Vallen April 10, 2008June 11, 2009

On April 7, 2003, Reuters photographer Faleh Kheiber took a photo that will forever speak of the cruelty of war. Kheiber’s photo, and dozens of others taken by fellow Reuters photojournalists working in Iraq, comprise an exhibition of war photography marking the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War, is the…

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