{"id":8587,"date":"2020-02-16T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8587"},"modified":"2020-02-11T08:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T13:57:48","slug":"michael-rakowitz-at-jane-lombard-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/16\/michael-rakowitz-at-jane-lombard-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Rakowitz at Jane Lombard Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz brings the destruction and theft of ancient artworks to public attention at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janelombardgallery.com\/current\">Jane Lombard Gallery<\/a> with a beautiful but barren reconstruction of the banqueting hall of 9<sup>th<\/sup> century BC Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II at the Palace of Nimrud.\u00a0 Though destroyed by the Islamic State in 2015, panels from the Palace of Nimrud are housed in many museums, a point Rakowitz highlights by crafting \u2018empty\u2019 walls as meticulously as the patterned ones.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through Feb 22<sup>nd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8588\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8588\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8588\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8588\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/michael_rakowitz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/michael_rakowitz.jpg 2586w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/michael_rakowitz-150x131.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/michael_rakowitz-459x400.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Rakowitz, The invisible enemy should not exist (Room F, section 1, panel 15, Northwest Palace of Nimrud), Middle Eastern food packaging and newspapers, glue, cardboard on wooden structures, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz brings the destruction and theft of ancient artworks to public attention at Jane Lombard Gallery with a beautiful but barren reconstruction of the banqueting hall of 9th century BC Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II at the Palace of Nimrud.\u00a0 Though destroyed by the Islamic State in 2015, panels from the Palace of &hellip; 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