This piece by the artist blew over during the run of Documenta in Kassel, Germany, in the summer of 2007. It was made of salvaged doors torn down by the Chinese government's erasure of traditional neighborhoods to make way for the booming economic growth of the country.

This piece by the artist blew over during the run of Documenta in Kassel, Germany, in the summer of 2007. It was made of salvaged doors torn down by the Chinese governments erasure of traditional neighborhoods to make way for the booming economic growth of the country.

  • This piece by the artist blew over during the run of Documenta in Kassel, Germany, in the summer of 2007. It was made of salvaged doors torn down by the Chinese government’s erasure of traditional neighborhoods to make way for the booming economic growth of the country.

He’s a political artist; the Chinese government tore his studio down Tuesday, the New York Times reports.

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...

One reply on “Calling Ai Weiwei A “Conceptual Artist” Now Seems Twee”

  1. “Twee?”
    If we (Americans) are going to start using this word, let’s apply it correctly. “Twee” is baby talk for “sweet” and means, according to Wiktionary, “Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.” Something we call twee is generally exactly as its creator intended; we’re just commenting on their lack of taste. It just doesn’t apply to the use of of an inadequate term like “conceptual artist” to a badass like Ai Weiwei.

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