Seattle: Ai Wewei: Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei
By TAK PHAM
AI WEIWEI, Arm with the Finger in Bronze, 2000, gilt bronze, 35.5 × 70 × 23 cm. Courtesy the artist; The Albertina, Vienna; and Lisa Rastl and Reiner Riedler.
Ai Weiwei’s latest US museum exhibition, a survey of his four-decade career, came at a particularly tense time in global history. The prolific artist, known for art that comments on human rights and political oppression, presented over 130 works at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM).
