Michael Rakowitz Wins Nasher Prize for Sculpture
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Peter Libbey
Michael Rakowitz, a Chicago-based artist dedicated to resurrecting the past and drawing attention to the neglected, has been awarded the 2020 Nasher Prize, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas announced on Wednesday. As a part of the award, which honors a living artist for their contributions to sculpture, he will receive $100,000. “There’s a part of me that is simultaneously grateful and really happy about it, but then there’s another part of me that hopes that one way or another, I can earn this someday,” Mr. Rakowitz said in an interview. The beginning of his career in the late-1990s, he added, “doesn’t feel like long ago at all.” [More]
By Peter Libbey
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| Michael Rakowitz’s “The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu)” here on display in Trafalgar Square in London, is a re-creation of a sculpture destroyed by ISIS. |
