Wednesday, June 29, 2011

New York City history through the lens of Ai Weiwei

[Outside Tompkins Square Park, 1986 — Ai Weiwei]

From the EV Grieve inbox ...

Asia Society Museum presents an exhibition of 227 photographs taken by famed Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, capturing the history, culture, and atmosphere of 1980s New York from his unique perspective.

The exhibit opens today, and closes on Aug. 14.

Asia Society Museum
725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
Details here.

1 comment:

  1. this poor man is being physically tortured by the chinese government for no good reason. so f*cking wrong. and he even built the birdsnest for the 2011 olympics! very nice how they treat their national art heroes there. repressive bast@rds!!!
    defend human rights!

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