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The Problems and Pleasures of an Activist Art Exhibition

Avatar photo by Billie Anania March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

I am often skeptical of protest art behind glass, yet I still cannot deny the pleasure of experiencing politically charged artworks in a venue making the effort.

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On Veterans Day, Revisiting Michael Rakowitz’s Poignant Anti-War Monument

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia November 11, 2021November 11, 2021

Modeled after Daniel Taylor, a soldier who served during the Iraq War, his Margate seafront sculpture condemns the UK government’s role in the invasion.

Posted inArt

Michael Rakowitz Makes a Life Out of Fragments

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney April 11, 2021April 9, 2021

Rakowitz has installed at the Wellin a partial reconstruction of “Room H” within the Northwest Palace of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud.

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Behind the Scenes of MoMA PS1 Exhibition, Artists Confronted Leadership Over Chairman’s Implication in Iraq War

by Hakim Bishara March 18, 2021March 23, 2021

Artists included in the Gulf Wars exhibition say they were disregarded and demeaned after speaking up against MoMA Chairman Leon Black, owner of a security firm linked to untold carnage in Iraq.

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Michael Rakowitz’s Recreations of Art Taken From Iraq

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel February 12, 2021February 15, 2021

Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of Art21’s Haunting the West, a short film about Rakowitz’s artistic efforts to end the marginalization of West Asian art and history.

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Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud Is Now Open at the Wellin Museum of Art

by Wellin Museum of Art October 19, 2020November 9, 2020

In these new works, including a major commission, Rakowitz continues his efforts to complicate the narrative around cultural patrimony. On view through June 2021.

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After Being Ignored by MoMA PS1, Michael Rakowitz Paused His Video in Its Gulf Wars Exhibition

by Hakim Bishara January 13, 2020January 13, 2020

The artist posted a statement next to the paused video, demanding two of the museum’s trustees divest from private prison companies and defense contractors.

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Artist-Led Community Meals Mostly Reject the Stuffiness of Art Dinners

by Catherine G. Wagley October 30, 2019October 30, 2019

Los Angeles’s city-funded triennial, Current:LA Food, has been hosting community meals that are open to the public throughout the city, though the events are still dominated by art world figures.

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Exposing Ghosts of the Past, Michael Rakowitz Pulls Back the Curtain

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier August 13, 2019March 16, 2020

Throughout his career, Rakowitz has been making artful reconstructions of lost heritage.

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Michael Rakowitz Discusses Withdrawing from the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and His Leonard Cohen Problem

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian May 17, 2019July 15, 2022

The artist shares his thoughts on museums, power, art, and ideology.

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A Famous Anti-Slavery Speech Finds New Life in Brooklyn

Avatar photo by Deena ElGenaidi April 10, 2019

“A Time for Seditious Speech” aims to show that speech can serve as a call to direct action, sometimes even violence.

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Vanished Art Recalled and Reinterpreted

Avatar photo by Louis Bury October 27, 2018October 26, 2018

In this exhibition contemporary artworks are paired with works that have been destroyed or lost to the annals of art history.

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