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Video of Man Smashing Ai Weiwei Vase Emerges
BBC has uncovered unverified video of Miami artist Maximo Caminero destroying part of Ai Weiwei's "Colored Vases" (2006–12) artwork.
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Artist Smashes Ai Weiwei Vase to Protest Museum's Snub of Local Artists
Miami-based artist Maximo Caminero, 51, hurled himself into the media spotlight when he dropped a vase that was part of Ai Weiwei's According to What? retrospective currently at the Perez Art Museum Miami.
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A Look Inside Miami's New Art Museum
MIAMI — On opening night, I dutifully parked my car in the Omni parking lot as instructed and got inside the double-decker bus that would take me five or so blocks to the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). That ride on the top deck took nearly twenty minutes. We drove up the long driveway, past half-fin
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For Ai Weiwei, Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
We've been through this before. I'm a HUGE Ai Weiwei fan. He somehow continues to send out beautiful and challenging transmissions from behind the bonefart razor wall of oppression and torture that is the Chinese government. He was a 100 percenter as far as I was concerned, from intention to viewpoi
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The Artistic Vision of an Artist Who Almost Disappeared
VENICE — Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei's six-part "S.A.C.R.E.D." (2011–2013) is a stark installation that sits underneath a round heavenly fresco by late Baroque artist Sebastiano Ricci and surrounded by works by other well-known Italian Old Masters.
Opinion
No Supper for You! Ai Weiwei Goes Heavy Metal
Look, Ai Weiwei's been through hell. But that doesn't mean he needs to put the rest of us through it. And yet, here we are — "Dumbass" has arrived. In terms of metal, Ai Weiwei, in one song, has become the Billy Ray Cyrus of the genre. Billy Ray is about as country as Pat Boone was heavy metal. And
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The Architectural Is Always Political
New York’s East 53rd Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues, is full of nondescript Manhattan skyscrapers. In the courtyard of one of these clinically clean buildings, however, there are five crumbling, old slabs of concrete covered in graffiti. It’s hard to believe that these blocks, so out of p
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The Visual Memory of Ai Weiwei's Survey at the Hirshhorn Museum
Ai Weiwei's survey at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC ended this past Sunday, and on that last day clusters of visitors gathered around each piece with camera phones out in documentation, especially at the end piece "Cube Light." The highly photogenic glimmering box of glass crystals from his
Opinion
See Ai Weiwei's Pro-Love AIDS Foundation Video
Would you think an artist dead set on destroying ancient vases would be quite so romantic? The Elton John AIDS Foundation has commissioned Ai Weiwei to create a short video animation published on the occasion of Valentine's Day, and the results are… unexpected.
Opinion
Another Gangnam Style: When Memes Make You Hate Them
I think it's happened: I've hit my Gangnam Style limit with this new video by Anish Kapoor and his cohorts in museums and galleries (not to mention random offices and people) around the world.
Opinion
MoMA Goes Gangnam Style in Support of Ai Weiwei
The Museum of Modern Art posted this pretty fantastic photo on its Facebook page today — a shot of museum staff going Gangnam Style in support of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. If you're confused about why a New York museum would support a Chinese artist by dancing to a mega-popular song by South Korean
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Can Lin Tianmiao Break Free of Gender?
The first survey of Chinese installation artist Lin Tianmiao at Asia Society, called Bound Unbound, could not have a more fitting title. The artist’s sartorial sculptures, grotesque bodies, and fibrous compositions illustrate an artist bound by cultural convention creating art unbound in technique a