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A Conversation Across Time: Assyria, Greece, and the Art of Michael Rakowitz

The Acropolis Museum’s exhibition, Allspice: Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures, offered a compelling journey through time, bringing together ancient Assyrian and Greek artifacts with contemporary works by Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz.

A Conversation Across Time: Assyria, Greece, and the Art of Michael Rakowitz
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"Set within the Museum’s Temporary Exhibition Gallery, Allspice initiates a conversation between civilizations separated by millennia but united by shared themes of displacement, loss, and cultural resilience. Ancient relics from the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and the Thanos N. Zintilis Collection of Cypriot Antiquities at the Museum of Cycladic Art stand alongside Rakowitz’s poignant reconstructions of destroyed Assyrian masterpieces."

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The Acropolis Museum’s recently inaugurated exhibition traces stories of survival, identity, and restitution

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