{"id":1408,"date":"2012-09-23T21:48:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T01:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2012-09-23T21:48:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T01:48:44","slug":"ai-weiwei-at-carolina-nitsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/23\/ai-weiwei-at-carolina-nitsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai Weiwei at Carolina Nitsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1410\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ai_weiwei_sunflowerseeds1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1410\" title=\"Ai Weiwei, Kui Hua Zi (Sun Flower Seeds), 2009.\" src=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ai_weiwei_sunflowerseeds1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ai Weiwei, Kui Hua Zi (Sun Flower Seeds), 2009.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ai_weiwei_sunflowerseeds1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ai_weiwei_sunflowerseeds1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ai_weiwei_sunflowerseeds1.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ai Weiwei, Kui Hua Zi (Sun Flower Seeds), 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One thousand hand-painted, porcelain sunflower seeds made in Jingdezhen, China are on offer at Carolina Nitsch as part of a show of work (80s NYC photos and Qing Dynasty chairs) by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.\u00a0 Once a metaphor for the Chinese populace following their leadership as the sunflower follows the sun, these remnants of Weiwei\u2019s five ton installation at Tate Modern suggest that it\u2019s the artist who is followed so closely as his popularity continues to rise. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/carolinanitsch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Nitsch<\/a> through Nov 3rd.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thousand hand-painted, porcelain sunflower seeds made in Jingdezhen, China are on offer at Carolina Nitsch as part of a show of work (80s NYC photos and Qing Dynasty chairs) by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.\u00a0 Once a metaphor for the Chinese populace following their leadership as the sunflower follows the sun, these remnants of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/23\/ai-weiwei-at-carolina-nitsch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ai Weiwei at Carolina Nitsch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[400,250,402,10,401],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-ai-weiwei","tag-carolina-nitsch","tag-porcelain","tag-sculpture","tag-sunflower-seeds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-mI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}