Ai Weiwei Commemorates Drowned Refugees During Berlin Film Festival

This article originally appeared on artnet News. Seemingly undisturbed by the huge backlash caused by his recreation of the tragic image of the the drowned three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi, in his latest public artwork Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has returned to the subject and attached 14,000 life jackets used by refugees to Berlin's Konzerthaus concert hall. The fluorescent orange vests, which are tightly wrapped around the columns of the 19th century music venue, were collec...