Ai Weiwei Is Building Fences All Over NYC In A Powerful Public Art Project

“Ai Weiwei’s work is extraordinarily timely, but it’s not reducible to a single political gesture,” Nicholas Baume, the director and chief curator of Public Art Fund, told HuffPost. “The exhibition grows out of his own life and work, including his childhood experience of displacement during the Cultural Revolution, his formative years as an immigrant and student in NYC in the 1980s, and his more recent persecution as an artist-activist in China. It reflects his profound empathy with other displaced people, particularly migrants, refugees and victims of war.”

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