Ai Weiwei, internationally famed artist and chief provocateur of the Chinese art world, opened his London Turbine Hall installation today, the eleventh, and first for an Asian artist, in the Tate’s ...
Installation view at Haines Gallery of Ai Weiwei’s “Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)” from 2009 (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) BERKELEY, California — At Haines Gallery in San Francisco’s ...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's Tate gallery has bought a work by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei made up of 8 million porcelain sunflower seeds — a portion of the 100 million he brought to London in 2010. Tate said ...
A child plays with some of the seeds in Ai Weiwei's installation 'Sunflower Seeds' at The Tate Modern in London, England on October 11, 2010. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) The exhibit consists of ...
In London, where the contemporary-art world has gathered for the Frieze Art Fair, Ai Weiwei's work in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern is a hot topic. "Sunflower Seeds," a work commissioned by the ...