Michael Rakowitz pointed to the student. The room was quiet, the chairs in his freshman art seminar at Northwestern University arranged in a circle. Rakowitz had just finished telling them about ...

In American Golem (2022), on display as part of Rakowitz’s solo exhibition The Monument, The Monster, and The Manquette, the artist has created a monument from fragments of other monuments.

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.

Produced by Ian Forster for Art21, Haunting the West interviews artist Michael Rakowitz while retracing his creative process. The documentary sketches an engaging portrayal of an artist’s search ...

Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz has created the cook book ‘A House With A Date Palm Will Never Starve’ filled with recipes by friends that all include date syrup as an ingredient. ... Cooking ...

The list has grown again since the artist extended his focus to Syria and later destruction in Iraq. “My studio and I are ‘reappearing’ the objects that remain at large,” Mr Rakowitz explains.

American-Iraqi artist Michael Rakowitz has been working to reconstruct these “(g)hosts” of the past since 2007, mostly using food packaging from Iraq to create sculptures, one of which — the ...

Tabish Khan Michael Rakowitz: Fourth Plinth Artist Makes Us Weep By Recreating Objects Destroyed By ISIS Michael Rakowitz, Whitechapel Gallery 4 Much like his Fourth Plinth sculpture, these are ...

Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz’s exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Backstroke of the West, explores hostility and hospitality through installations like “ Enemy ...

When artist Michael Rakowitz won the Nasher Prize in late 2019, the world was a vastly different place. Typically, the announcement of the prestigious prize — which has been handed out annually ...