{"id":25069,"date":"2009-04-01T19:15:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T23:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=25069"},"modified":"2014-04-28T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T23:16:46","slug":"ai-weiwei-according-to-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=25069","title":{"rendered":"Ai Weiwei: According to What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=25070\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25070\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ai_Weiwei_sig_428W.jpg\" alt=\"Ai_Weiwei_sig_428W\" width=\"428\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/aiweiwei.com\/\">Ai Weiwei<\/a> is one of China\u2019s most prolific and provocative contemporary artists. Featuring over thirty works spanning more than twenty years,\u00a0<em style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ai Weiwei: According to What?<\/em>explores universal topics of culture, history, politics, and tradition, showcasing the artist\u2019s remarkably interdisciplinary career as a photographer, sculptor, architect, and activist.<\/p>\n<p>These works spotlight issues of freedom of expression, as well as individual and human rights both in China and globally. Many use minimal forms and methods, while others manipulate traditional furniture, ancient pottery, and daily\u00a0objects in ways that question cultural values and challenge political authority.<\/p>\n<p>Ai is best known for projects such as his collaboration with Herzog &amp; de Meuron on the 2008 Beijing Olympic National\u00a0Stadium, as well as his embrace of the Internet and social media as a platform for his activism. Despite his arrest and eighty-one-day detention in 2011, Ai has continued to create art that\u00a0transcends dualities between East and West.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Brooklyn Museum<\/em>, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222;\">718-638-5000, Through August 10<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ai Weiwei is one of China\u2019s most prolific and provocative contemporary artists. Featuring over thirty works spanning more than twenty years,\u00a0Ai Weiwei: According to What?explores universal topics of culture, history, politics, and tradition, showcasing the artist\u2019s remarkably interdisciplinary career as a photographer, sculptor, architect, and activist.<br \/>\nThese works spotlight issues of freedom of expression, as well [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[3893,885,709,717],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25071,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25069\/revisions\/25071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}