This spring, three shows of work by artist Ai Weiwei are opening in London, Berlin and New York, with a major retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, an exhibition at Lisson Gallery in London, and the largest exhibition of the artist’s work to date at the Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin. Â The exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum includes the artist’s S.A.C.R.E.D. works, half-sized dioramas depicting his 81-day imprisonment that commanded major critical attention at the Venice Biennale last year. Â The exhibitions come with a hope that Chinese tourists may be exposed to Ai’s work outside his own country. Â Â “Because my work is banned from being shown inside China, the only way they can become aware of it is from the outside,” he said.
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