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According to What? The Ai Weiwei Retrospective in Washington D.C.

The show takes its name from a 1964 Jasper Johns work and explores the controversial Chinese artist-activist's attempts to make art a way of looking at the world--and challenging its authorities--rather than accumulating artifacts.

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Beijing Olympic Stadium

By Oct. 06, 2012
Cathy Carver

Ai Weiwei helped inspire the geometrical design of the celebrated "Bird's Nest" that helped symbolize the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In background and bottom: images of the Olympic Stadium, 2005-08; from left to right, Divina Proportione, 2006; F-Size, 2011.

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