Ai Weiwei's retrospective at London's Royal Academy of Art came to a close in December. In it, the Chinese artist showed a range of works that addressed creative freedom, censorship and human rights. Bicycles, Qing dynasty tables, porcelain crabs, bronze-casted bones and fragments of the artist's own demolished studio were configured into a powerful statement of his activism. While Ai Weiwei's works speak to a global community, they often represent a direct challenge to China's ruling Communist ...
Ai Weiwei's retrospective at London's Royal Academy of Art came to a close in December. In it, the Chinese artist showed a range of works that addressed creative freedom, censorship and human rights. Bicycles, Qing dynasty tables, porcelain crabs, bronze-casted bones and fragments of the artist's own demolished studio were configured into a powerful statement of his activism. While Ai Weiwei's works speak to a global community, they often represent a direct challenge to China's ruling Communist ...
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