Ai Weiwei: According to What? Comes to Brooklyn Museum

Springtime at the Brooklyn Museum is an event in itself with the opening of the first major New York area retrospective if the work of artist Ai Weiwei. Major retrospectives have been shown at the Tate Modern in the UK, at Corcoran in D.C. In the US, and at Mori Art Museum In Tokyo and now he's in NYC. A great exhibition including the major rebar work which a curator indicated is expanded from the piece shown in DC. Also S.A.C.R.E.D., dioramas recounting the artist's arrest and incarceration, which appeared in the VeniceBiennial. 

The museum is the focal point of an amazing amount of first amendment energy as well with Witness: Art and CivilRights  in the Sixties, another powerful collection of art and photos highlighting the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.

Rounding out this energetic season is "Submerged Motherlands" by artist Swoon (Caledonia Dance Curry) addressing climate change. Swoon engages with climate change in the installation as a response to the catastrophic Hurricane Sandy that struck the Atlantic Coast in 2012, and Doggerland, a landmass that once connected Great Britain and Europe and that was destroyed by a tsunami 8,000 years ago.A towering tree and post apocalyptic sea craft dominate this fascinating exhibit.

A trio of "must see" exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum.

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/ai_weiwei/

--Anthony Napoli

Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn