Arts week in Miami is always action packed. We ended out day at the opening of the new Perez Museum. A beautiful building of 120,000 square feet was designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and sits directly on the shores of Biscayne Bay. It is named for the Miami developer and collector who pledged the first $40 million of the $130 million it cost to build it.
The inaugural exhibition, a retrospective of Chinese artist and activist, "Ai Weiwei: According to What?" comprises 30 works in all media and spans 20 years. It explores ideas of culture, history, politics and tradition. Despite the crowds and our exhausted eyes and feet, this exhibition was definitely a highlight of our time in Miami.
All hail Year of the Rat!
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Ai Weiwei photographed dropping a Han Dynasty urn along with his own, contemporary urns.
(Out with the old, in with the new.) |
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| Stool sculpture |
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| Pictures of Ai Weiwei's "birds' nest" building designed for the Beijing Olympics seen behind the straightened rebar salvaged from rubble of the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan. |
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| Shoddy construction was a contributing factor to the deaths of hundreds of school children in the earthquake. This work incorporates the names and birth dates of all the school children who died in the earthquake. |
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| Ai Weiwei's famous photo makes a powerful statement. |
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