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# Ai Weiwei Creates Bombs, a New Limited-Edition Print, Now Available for Purchase
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/ai-weiwei-bombs-print-purchase-kemper-art-museum/
- Published: 2020-01-29T16:41:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:38:43.000Z
- Description: The 72-by-48-inch print is based on the artist’s recent site-specific installation at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri.
- Author: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
- Tags: Announcement, Ai Weiwei, Kemper Art Museum, Missouri, Prints, St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:41 (2019, 2020, part 2)

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Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957), “Bombs” (2019). Offset lithograph, 72 x 48.” © Ai Weiwei Studio. Limited edition of 500 + 50 APs. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

Internationally renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei has created the limited-edition print *Bombs*, on sale now exclusively at [**kemperartmuseumshop.com**](http://bit.ly/2NWZyCF?ref=hyperallergic.com).

This dramatic, large-scale print is a compilation of 3-D renderings of 50 conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction developed by a number of countries. The bombs are arranged chronologically, from a 1911 grenade to a 2019 guided nuclear missile. The work is the latest in the artist’s ongoing investigation of the global refugee crisis and armed conflicts across the world.

*Bombs* first appeared as a monumental site-specific installation in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum’s 2019 exhibition [*Ai Weiwei: Bare Life*](http://bit.ly/2TWbk3Q?ref=hyperallergic.com). “The hyperrealistic images have a seductive physical beauty that belies their appalling and frightening truth,” says Sabine Eckmann, the William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator of the Museum.

**This new artwork, a limited edition of 500 prints, by one of today’s most important artists and humanitarian voices, is available for $750 plus shipping and handling at** [**kemperartmuseumshop.com**](http://bit.ly/2NWZyCF?ref=hyperallergic.com)**.**

All proceeds benefit the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.