Submerged: startling underwater art points up refugee crisis

A museum with a difference opened yesterday (1 March), under the sea off the coast of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. The UK-born artist Jason deCaires Taylor has created a cast of figures located fourteen metres under the Atlantic Ocean. The main installation in the so-called Museo Atlantico shows 35 figures walking towards a gate, or portal to another world (Rubicon). Another work, The Raft of Lampedusa, is “a harrowing depiction of the ongoing humanitarian crisis, referencin