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A House With A Date Palm Will Never Starve

So says this Arabic proverb used by artist Mark Rakowitz on this lovely wooden spoon which commemorates his work, The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist, that exhibited on the famous Forth Plinth in Trafalger Square, London in 2018. The sculpture was of Lemassu, a winged bull and protective deity that stood at the Nirva Gate of Nineveh until it was destroyed by ISIS in 2015. The work is a continuation of his aim to recreate the 7000 objects looted from the Iraq Museum after the Iraq War or destroyed across the country by certain factions.

When it came …