Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has covered the floor of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London with more than 100 million individually handmade replica sunflower seeds. Top image is by Marcus Leith ...

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 ...

China’s most famous and politically outspoken artist, Ai Weiwei, has filled the back ... In fact these are 100 million tiny sculptures of sunflower seeds, made out of porcelain and hand-painted ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's "sunflower seeds" - a work made up of 10 tonnes of porcelain seed replicas - has been bought by Tate Modern. The London gallery has acquired around eight million of the ...

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 ...

Reuters An auction of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei's porcelain sunflower seeds at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday has fetched $782,000, near the higher end of the $600,000 to $800,000 ...

Sunflower Seeds is a softly spoken message to the people Ai Weiwei loves and whose masters he contemns. Sooner or later China will have to change. One day, all those seeds will grow. Since the ...

Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds at the Tate’s Turbine Hall space in London opened to a good deal of rejoicing. Viewers and critics alike were entranced by the installation, a field of 100 million ...

A single sunflower seed you can hold on your fingertip. One hundred you can carry in two hands. A thousand might fit in your backpack or briefcase. But a million sunflower seeds and you have a hill.

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