Ai is perhaps best known for his full-throated criticism of the Chinese government, calling for greater transparency and more forgiving free-speech laws. After the 2008 Sichuan earthquake — which left 90,000 dead including 5,300 children, many of them students — the artist took to social media sites like Twitter as a means to condemn the government for repressing death toll numbers and shunting responsibility.
In “Snake Ceiling” (2008), a curvy line composed of children’s…
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