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Kusama x Louis Vuitton: art and luxury. Plus, Michael Rakowitz’s Tate/Iraq gift and photographer Rosy Martin

The Week in Art

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The Invisible Enemy Shouldn't Exist for the Fourth Planet

The Lamasu was made from 10,500 cans of Iraqi date syrup. It's a life-size reappearance of the one that had stood at the neural gate in Nineveh and been destroyed in 2015. "I thought this was the skin they should wear if they were to haunt me," says director Tarek Ayoob.

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