{"id":1497,"date":"2012-10-21T23:30:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T03:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2012-10-21T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T03:30:17","slug":"ai-weiwei-at-mary-boone-gallery-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/21\/ai-weiwei-at-mary-boone-gallery-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai Weiwei at Mary Boone Gallery, Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1498\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/aiweiwei_forge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1498\" title=\"Ai Weiwei, 'Forge,' reinforcement steel, 2008-2012.\" src=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/aiweiwei_forge-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ai Weiwei, 'Forge,' reinforcement steel, 2008-2012.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ai Weiwei, &#8216;Forge,&#8217; reinforcement steel, 2008-2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Further to yesterday\u2019s post, Ai Weiwei\u2019s activism continues at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryboonegallery.com\/index1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Boone<\/a>\u2019s Chelsea gallery with \u2018Forge\u2019 an installation of twisted pieces of rebar.\u00a0 Though the print and carefully arranged, twisted pieces of metal on the floor appear to be calligraphic abstractions, they\u2019re created from pieces of metal retrieved from shoddily constructed schools that collapsed in the 2008 earthquake, killing thousands of children. 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