Acknowledgements

“It Is What It Is” is curated for the New Museum by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator, and Amy Mackie, Curatorial Assistant; and for Creative Time by Nato Thompson, Curator. The research team includes: Shane Brennan, Sarah Demeuse, Ozge Ersoy, Jazmin Garcia, Martha Kirszenbaum, Cloé Perrone, and Terri C. Smith. Thank you to Jeremy's assistant, Emanuel Almborg.

“It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq” is part of The Three M Project, a series organized by the New Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, to commission, organize and co-present new works of art.

The Three M Project is sponsored by .

“It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq” is made possible at the New Museum by a gift from Shane Akeroyd.

The conversations are made possible by the Charlotte and Bill Ford Artists Talks Fund.

Additional support provided by the Toby Devan Lewis Emerging Artists Exhibitions Fund.

Special support for Creative Time for “It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq” is provided by Jed Walentas and Kate Engelbrecht, Charlotte and Bill Ford, Michael Gruenglas, and Stephen Kramarsky and Elise Mac Adam.

Creative Time is funded through the generous support of corporations, foundations, government agencies, and individuals. Additional funding provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency; New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn; and New York State Senator Thomas K. Duane.

Additional support provided by the Harpo Foundation.

Guest Experts
Sawsan M. Al-Dawodi
Khalid Rashid Al-Doori
Salam Al-Iraqi
Nour Al-Khal
Gil Anidjar
Kate Armel
Anthony Arnove
Peter J. Buotte
Marie-Hélène Carleton
Carrie Costantini
David Enders
Ruthie Epstein
Micah Garen
Don Gomez
Arun Gupta
Denis Halliday
Jonathan Harvey
Yousif Ahmed Khalaf
Joseph Maximilian (“Max”) Krafft
Brian Laguardia
Alaa Majeed
Susan Meiselas
Nicholas Mirzoeff
Steve Mumford
Christian Parenti
Esam Pasha
Haider Hamza Abdul Razaq
Carne Ross
Iman Saleh
Zainab Saleh
Amelia Templeton
Donny George Youkhanna

Host Institutions
Aaron Levy, Slought Foundation
Hope Ginsburg, Assistant Professor, Art Foundation Program
Virginia Commonwealth University
Raphaela Platow, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati
Paul Ha, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Stacy Switzer, Grand Arts (Kansas City)
Karen Farber, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts (Houston)
Laura Heon, SITE Santa Fe

Three M
Jessica Hough and Elizabeth Cline, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Elizabeth Smith, Dominic Molon, and Tricia Van Eck, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Translation
Blake Brunner

Creative Time would also like to thank
Dana Farouki
Tucker Reed

New Museum would also like to thank
Lila Abu-Lughod
Sinan Antoon
Said Arikat
Christoph Bangert
Mark Dawson
Mariam Ghani and her students at New York University
Murat Guney
Ed Hall
Monica Haller
Blake Henderson from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association
Ina Howard from Represent Agency
Thomas Keenan
Justin Meekel
Canay Ozden
Luke Peterson from Pomegrante Gallery
Matthew Radune
Ayman Ramadan
Nada Shabout
Greta N. Scharnweber
Andrea Schwan
Saadi A. Simawe
Emily Teeter and Geoff Emberling of the Oriental Institute
Lana Wong
Haifa Zangana

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