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Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei is at the Seattle Art Museum until September 7th. The artist’s first US retrospective in over a decade, it is his largest-ever exhibition in the US ...

Foreground: Ai Weiwei’s Combat Vases (2023), porcelain, set of 90 helmets. Background: “Washington Crossing the Delaware” (2023), toy bricks (WOMA), ~105 1/2 x 267 3/4 inches (400 x 680 cm) ...

Glass Vase (2023) is an excellent example of Ai Weiwei's ongoing interrogation of capitalism, commodity culture, and it relationship to antiquities - a project which began with his (in)famous Dropping ...

Each vase in the edition of 300 was cast with an iron mold on Murano.Ai Weiwei is one of the best known artists working today. His provocative blend of Chinese history and tradition within a wholly ...

And in another typical Weiwei-ism, “Dragon Vase” (2017), Ai sets out to faithfully recreate a piece of red and white Ming porcelain.

The designs were inspired by the “ Colored Vases ” project he began in 2006. Illy Art Collection designed by Ai Weiwei, $65 for two espresso cups, $70 for two cappuccino cups; $125 and $135 ...

“I am 100% sure that Ai Weiwei saw my vases,” says Yassin. Ai, however, says he does not know anything about the artist or his work.

Left: a detail of Ai Weiwei's Vases with Refugee Motif as a Pillar (2017) and right: Raed Yassin's the Battle for Tal al-Zaatar, from the China series (2012) Ai: courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio.