Comments on: Chinese contemporary art and meeting Ai Weiwei http://www.butchwax.com/2009/01/chinese-contemporary-art-and-meeting-ai-weiwei/ Life in Beijing, and back to Austin... Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:31:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ma http://www.butchwax.com/2009/01/chinese-contemporary-art-and-meeting-ai-weiwei/#comment-7 Ma Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:57:15 +0000 http://www.butchwax.com/?p=77#comment-7 Thanks for posting this. I think you should have stood around a little longer. Maybe Ai Weiwei got into society so easily in New York because most people there are foreigners, aliens, dorks or outsiders in one way or another, yet everyone has a chance to feel included. New York is special that way. Some famous guy (and others) said, "Everyone is a New Yorker." And Ai Weiwei was a bold artist and "personality" and probably stood out even in a city full of people from all over, doing a million things including art. Reading this makes me homesick for Beijing (not my home) and the 798. I love the image of everyone outside the gallery, chatting around the warm fires. Thanks for posting this. I think you should have stood around a little longer.

Maybe Ai Weiwei got into society so easily in New York because most people there are foreigners, aliens, dorks or outsiders in one way or another, yet everyone has a chance to feel included. New York is special that way. Some famous guy (and others) said, “Everyone is a New Yorker.” And Ai Weiwei was a bold artist and “personality” and probably stood out even in a city full of people from all over, doing a million things including art.

Reading this makes me homesick for Beijing (not my home) and the 798. I love the image of everyone outside the gallery, chatting around the warm fires.

]]> By: Tom http://www.butchwax.com/2009/01/chinese-contemporary-art-and-meeting-ai-weiwei/#comment-6 Tom Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:53:26 +0000 http://www.butchwax.com/?p=77#comment-6 Here's a really interesting piece about Ai Weiwei: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/jul/06/art.china According to the writer you should feel good because he replied to you in English. Maybe he wasn't cutting you off--he also seems to be known for giving "gnomic answers". I guess "shit happens" is pretty gnomic. Here’s a really interesting piece about Ai Weiwei: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/jul/06/art.china

According to the writer you should feel good because he replied to you in English. Maybe he wasn’t cutting you off–he also seems to be known for giving “gnomic answers”. I guess “shit happens” is pretty gnomic.

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