In Brief
An Artist Imagines a Statue of Liberty Made from War Rubble
Syrian artist Tammam Azzam's "Statue of (Rubble) Liberty" has gone viral, but, as with most things online, it's not exactly what it seems.
Tammam Azzam
In Brief
Grayson Perry, Schoolchildren, and Others Design Postcards to Support Syrian Refugees
“MACHO POSTURING / THERE IS NO GOD,” reads British artist Grayson Perry’s newest drawing, which depicts an industrial wasteland with territories marked “fragile hope,” “crap jobs,” and “motorway of dreams (mistaken).”
Art
After Exile, an Artist Confronts the Aesthetics of Diaspora
Azzam gives each work an overarching sense of incompleteness, a longing for a place to which one can never return.