These three decks are available with either a documentation image from Weiwei’s well-known Sunflower Seeds installation or one of two stills from the popular documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. Eachonecomes emblazoned with quotes like, “The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.” Pretty much what we’ve all come to expect from an artist who’s a much more accomplished activist than an artist.
The decks are available at the The Sk8room gallery shop in Brussels for just a little over $400, if you’re into that sort of thing… Merchandise is merchandise, but at least Matthew Barney’s graphite skate deck made a little bit of sense, both contextually and formally.
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has followed up on his first dramatic metal video depicting his 81-day imprisonment in great detail with his newest release. It's a slightly more toned-down atmosphere, and while continuing to be as politically charged as his previous material, it provides more of a direct, behind-the-scenes look into the life of…
Well-known Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei just did the cover art for this month's issue of TIME magazine. While the cover bears many visual similarities to the Chinese propaganda posters of yesteryear it remains quite timid in comparison to some of the artist's more recent works. It's also clean and simple, and…
Ai Weiwei is powerful artist, badass, oppressive government agitator, metal musician... BARBER??? Sign me up, b. We've seen this scene in the doc Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. The much-liked artist has sidewalk soirees. Culture people come. Regular denizens too. They all, like, dine and chill and make gov goons unhappy just by existing,…