Sunday, 7 October 2012

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei gets Smithsonian showcase

This three-picture combo, provided by the Smithsonian?s Hirshhorn Museum, shows the the three panels of Al Weiwei's triptych: "Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995/2009." The Smithsonian?s Hirshhorn Museum presents the first U.S. retrospective of works by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei as China?s government continues pushing to close Ai?s design firm and is preventing him from leaving the country. (AP Photo/Smithsonian?s Hirshhorn Museum)Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who helped design Beijing's Olympic Stadium and has since drawn tough scrutiny for his political activism, is opening the first North American retrospective exhibition of his work in Washington.


Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-artist-ai-weiwei-gets-smithsonian-showcase-115514351.html

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