Thursday, March 29, 2018

New Sculpture On Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth Is Rebuke To ISIS's Destruction Of Ancient Sites

American artist Michael Rakowitz, whose family were Iraqi Jewish refugees, made a replica of the lamassu (a winged bull with a human head) which stood at the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh until ISIS destroyed it in 2015. (The material: thousands of empty cans of date syrup, once a major Iraqi export.)



Article source here:Arts Journal

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