Art Direction by Ai Weiwei
Photographed by Max Vadukul for W Magazine
(via Chinese artist Ai Weiwei collaborates with W magazine: Art & Design: Wmagazine.com)
Ai Weiwei talks about the time he spent as a young man living in New York and the 10,000 photographs he took documenting his life and the city. (2010, For Tate shots)
(Source: youtube.com)
Currently on display at New York’s Asia Society Museum in NYC through August 14.
(via 1988 Thompkins Square Park Riot by Ai Weiwei | Hypebeast)
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Asia Society Plans Exhibition of Ai Weiwei New York Photos - NYTimes.com
Long before he was a star of the international art world and a target of the Chinese government, the artist Ai Weiwei was at the center of an obscure group of Chinese cultural emigrés in the East Village, a community that he documented in some 10,000 photographs in the decade that he lived there, from 1983 to 1993.
Ai Weiwei created Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads for enjoyment by audiences from all walks of life, and under the current circumstances we feel even more keenly the obligation to bring that vision before the general public.
