Tag: Career
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Michael Joo Looks Back On His Career, With Another Venice Biennale Appearance on the Horizon
On a recent quiet, cloudy afternoon in Tribeca, artist Michael Joo and I crouched beside a tower of aluminum baking trays. The towers covered a whole section of Space ZeroOne, the Hanwha Foundation of Culture’s new institutional initiative. The gallery was otherwise empty. Joo moved slowly between the columns of trays, occasionally bending down to read more
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A Newly Updated Monograph Surveys Four Decades of Ai Weiwei's Career
From his monumental, meditative installation of 100 million hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds on the floor of Turbine Hall at Tate Modern to architectural columns wrapped in 14,000 salvaged life vests worn by refugees, artist-activist Ai Weiwei has long tapped into the power of scale, repetition, and symbols to plumb cultural heritage and expose societal issues. read more
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