Posts about Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei’s installation Straight (2008–2012)

Arts Activism Thrives on Solidarity

Using 150 tons of rebar salvaged from collapsed schools in the Sichuan earthquake, Ai Weiwei’s installation Straight[…]

Production still from "The Shawshank Redemption"

An Artist “Dodging Politics is Like Dodging Raindrops”

In director Frank Darabont’s 1994 film, “The Shawshank Redemption,” Andy Dufresne escapes prison through a sewage pipe[…]

Workers at Bibb Mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Photograph: Lewis Hine/The U.S. National Archives

When Those in Power Lie, the Arts Help Us See

The mill owners called it “helping out.” Lewis Hine’s lens called it what it was: child labor.[…]

Latest Comments