Mohamad Hafez installs 'Eternal Cities' at the new Yale Peabody Museum
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History is reopening early next year after four years of renovations.
Celebrated Syrian-American artist and architect Mohamad Hafez just installed a new piece, titled “Eternal Cities,” alongside the museum’s Babylonian collection. 3D-printed replicas of ancient Babylonian artifacts are peppered throughout the piece, bridging the millennia between ancient Mesopotamia and present-day Syria.
"It's a collaboration between educational archaeological museums, and local artists that come from the region that are working and living in the diaspora," says Hafez, "and…
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