Artists Against The War is inviting artists and art lovers in New York to gather all day next saturday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium BC from the Mediterranean to the Indus.” Works from Iraq and other countries currently living under the threat of US military aggression are displayed in this show.
They also suggest that on the same day, artists in other cities around the world join them in congregating in museums exhibiting ancient Near Eastern
art.
Visitors will quietly draw the objects around them, and before leaving the
museum, each will erase the drawings to symbolically reflect the
erasure of Iraqi culture and the silencing of dissent here at home.
For more information, and pictures, see the website.