Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Artist Ai Wewei to install fences around 300 sites in New York City

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is returning to New York, and he’s bringing plenty of creative genius with him. For his new project “Good Fences Make New Neighbors,” the social activist will be installing more than 100 fences and installations around New York City in one of his largest public art projects to date. Inspired by Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall,” the fences are a reaction to “a retreat from the essential attitude of openness” in American politics, he said. The...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building http://inhabitat.com/artist-ai-wewei-to-install-fences-around-300-sites-in-new-york-city
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