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Gain insight into the auction performance of Weiwei Ai . Track the change in total sales value, performance of lots against estimate and compare the artist's sale price according to the artwork medium ...
Published by Carolina Nitsch for the New Museum, New York Kui Hua Zi - which translates as "sunflower seeds" - is a continuation of Ai's practice of fusing Western and Eastern sensibilities, history, ...
BERKELEY, California — At Haines Gallery in San Francisco’s Financial District, I finally got to see Ai Weiwei’s notorious “Kui Hua Zi” (Sunflower Seeds). There has been much hype around ...
via Wikipedia. Chinese artist and activist Ai WeiWei is bringing his Sunflower Seeds installation to New York City for the first time, at an exhibit opening on Saturday at the Mary Boone Gallery ...
Ai Weiwei, whose latest work was installed in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall this week, can testify to that. Following the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, in which thousands of children were entombed in ...
Sunflower Seeds by Ai WeiWei, the dissident Chinese. Tate Modern has bought a smaller version of one of its most celebrated, and notorious, recent commissions for an undisclosed six-figure sum.
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.
Artists enjoy a peculiarly ambiguous status in modern China. They're allowed freedoms of movement and expression denied to the vast majority of the population. Yet should they raise their voices ...
Ai Weiwei has said that he chose to reproduce sunflower seeds in porcelain because during the famine years under Mao they were one of the few reliable sources of food, comfort and social interaction.