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Ai Weiwei Collects Lego Blocks by the Beemer-Load at Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum today became the first in the US to host a public collection point for Legos to send to Ai Weiwei.
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Big Brother Is Bugging Ai Weiwei
“There’s always a surprise,” Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei wrote on Instagram yesterday, captioning a photograph of a surveillance device he found hidden in his studio after returning to Beijing from his first trip overseas in four years.
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Bells, Bicycles, and Other Monumental Sculptures Land in London’s Financial District
LONDON — For the fifth edition of the Sculpture in the City public art exhibition, towering names in contemporary art like Ai Weiwei, Damien Hirst, and Kris Martin have sculptures alongside the financial district's skyscrapers.
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On the Fourth Anniversary of Fukushima, Artists Install an Exhibition Amid the Radiation
It's an art exhibition you can't visit. Not yet, at least, until officials declare the Fukushima exclusion zone habitable again, which for certain areas could take decades.
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A Public Art Biennial Takes Over a City in Sweden
ÖREBRO, Sweden — Festivals and biennials are typically the purview of curators and organizers, backed by endowed institutions.
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Is China Trying to Co-opt Ai Weiwei?
The Chinese government might be relaxing its censorious attitude toward Ai Weiwei.
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New Fund Aims to Help Persecuted Artists
On Tuesday, the Institute of International Education announced a three-year pilot program that will provide artists "who face persecution in their home countries" with fellowships at universities and art centers "in countries where they can safely continue their work."
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Artists Stage Political Interventions in Video Games
“I’m interested in using games as a way to engage in and critique the fine art world, especially the economics of that world,” said Grayson Earle, an Integrated Media Arts adjunct professor at Hunter College and SUNY Baruch, and member of The Illuminator.
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Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Exhibitions Around the World
Preparing a list of the best art exhibitions in the world is a lofty endeavor, but we're not going to pretend we've seen every single show on the globe, only many of them. Consider this a subjective but informed list of our global favorites that we want you to know about.
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Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Brooklyn Art Shows
Between the proliferation of galleries in Bushwick and, to a lesser extent, Greenpoint, the small cadre of Dumbo galleries sticking it out, longtime heavyweights including the Brooklyn Museum and BRIC mounting ambitious shows, and Creative Time parachuting Kara Walker's sugar sphinx into the Domino
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Publicity Splash: Ai Weiwei Splatters Designer Clothes for Fashion Magazine
Don’t ever trust your possessions with Ai Weiwei.
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The Politics of Prisons: Ai Weiwei at Alcatraz
SAN FRANCISCO — Stepping into a dingy and suffocatingly small cell, you're immersed in an intense soundscape of horns and the chanting of Tibetan monks. It’s overwhelming, and as the noise builds and bounces around the cold cement room, you wonder if this is akin to the feeling of being trapped insi