The show is being mounted in Ai’s absence, since he cannot travel outside China. For decades a critic of the Chinese government’s record on free speech and human rights, Ai has been banned from travel since his 81-day detention in China in 2011.
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The show is being mounted in Ai’s absence, since he cannot travel outside China. For decades a critic of the Chinese government’s record on free speech and human rights, Ai has been banned from travel since his 81-day detention in China in 2011.
The first major retrospective of the work of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) in the UK opens at Tate Modern on 11 November 2015. Calder was one of the truly ground-breaking artists of the 20th century.