Abstract
Mural-sized, spartanly rendered, cunningly mobile, Perry Bard's public artwork Status: Stolen rolled through the streets of Manhattan one month last summer, seemingly entreating passersby, “Have you seen these missing objects?” “Are you aware what goes on in your name?” Bard's project depicted five renowned Near Eastern artifacts pilfered from the Baghdad Museum during the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Set against a saffron-color field, the missing treasures were rendered as empty, white voids, clinically dated and labeled with their places of origin. The entire graphic was then mounted to the side of a seven-by-twenty-one-foot private mover's truck, which went about its routine pickups and deliveries carrying the artist's project along with it.
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