{"id":34364,"date":"2018-03-28T15:30:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/28\/winged-bull-made-of-syrup-cans-unveiled-on-fourth-plinth\/"},"modified":"2018-03-28T15:30:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T13:30:48","slug":"winged-bull-made-of-syrup-cans-unveiled-on-fourth-plinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=34364","title":{"rendered":"Winged bull made of syrup cans unveiled on fourth plinth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Rakowitz\u2019s artwork remaking deity destroyed by Isis installed in Trafalgar SquareA recreation of a protective deity destroyed by Islamic State in Iraq has been unveiled on Trafalgar Square\u2019s fourth plinth \u2013 rebuilt with 10,500 empty date syrup cans.As the black drapery fell away to reveal what the artist, Michael Rakowitz, has described as \u201ca palimpsest of loss\u201d for the people of Iraq, their cultural history, and a once great export industry, tears filled the eyes of a woman from Nineveh. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2018\/mar\/28\/winged-bull-syrup-cans-unveiled-fourth-plinth-trafalgar-square\" target=\"_blank\">Winged bull made of syrup cans unveiled on fourth plinth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Rakowitz\u2019s artwork remaking deity destroyed by Isis installed in Trafalgar SquareA recreation of a protective deity destroyed by Islamic State in Iraq has been unveiled on Trafalgar Square\u2019s fourth plinth \u2013 rebuilt with 10,500 empty date syrup cans.As the black drapery fell away to reveal what the artist, Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}