The problems of political public art

Few pieces of public art gather as much attention as Laith al-Amari’s recent sculpture of a shoe, created with the help of local children to celebrate Muntadhar al-Zeidi’s Bush-ward footware-hurling incident. Its public life has been shortlived, however. Tikrit police have insisted it be removed from its public location because of its “political” nature.

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