{"id":1489,"date":"2012-10-20T23:01:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T03:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2012-10-20T23:01:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T03:01:04","slug":"ai-weiwei-at-mary-boone-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/20\/ai-weiwei-at-mary-boone-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai Weiwei at Mary Boone Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1491\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/aiweiwei_allcrabs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1491\" title=\"Ai WeiWei, He Xie (river crab), installation at Mary Boone Gallery, 745 Fifth Ave, 2012.\" src=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/aiweiwei_allcrabs-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ai WeiWei, He Xie (river crab), installation at Mary Boone Gallery, 745 Fifth Ave, 2012.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ai WeiWei, He Xie (river crab), installation at Mary Boone Gallery, 745 Fifth Ave, 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Chinese, \u2018river crab\u2019 sounds like a euphemistic term used to describe censorship, so when artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei learned in 2010 that his newly built studio was to be demolished by the local government, he hosted a protest feast at which 10,000 river crabs were served. This installation of 2,500 handmade ceramic crabs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryboonegallery.com\/exhibitions\/2012-2013\/Ai-uptown\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Boone Gallery<\/a>\u2019s Fifth Ave &amp; 57<sup>th<\/sup> Street space recalls that event and demonstrates WeiWei\u2019s insuppressible resistance. (Through Dec 21<sup>st<\/sup>.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1494\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/aiweiwei_crabsdetail1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1494\" title=\"Ai Weiwei, He Xie detail, 2012.\" src=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/aiweiwei_crabsdetail1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ai Weiwei, He Xie detail, 2012.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ai Weiwei, He Xie detail, 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Chinese, \u2018river crab\u2019 sounds like a euphemistic term used to describe censorship, so when artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei learned in 2010 that his newly built studio was to be demolished by the local government, he hosted a protest feast at which 10,000 river crabs were served. This installation of 2,500 handmade &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/20\/ai-weiwei-at-mary-boone-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ai Weiwei at Mary Boone Gallery&#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_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":[400,460,459,458],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-ai-weiwei","tag-forge","tag-mary-boone-gallery","tag-river-crab"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-o1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","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=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}