Books By David Spalding - Author

Ai Weiwei is a Beijing-based artist and activist whose work encompasses sculpture, installation, photography, film, architecture, curation, and social criticism. His art has been featured in major solo exhibitions including the retrospective Ai Weiwei: According to What?, organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, in 2012, traveling to the PErez Art Museum Miami and to the Brooklyn Museum in 2014; and exhibitions at the Pulitzer Fountain, New York, 2011; and at Tate Modern, London, 2010. He collaborated with architects Herzog & de Meuron on the design for the 2012 Serpentine Pavilion in London and on the 'birds nest' stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Among numerous awards and honors, he received the VAclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent from the Human Rights Foundation in 2012.