Ai Weiwei

Kemper Museum prepares to open three spring exhibits, new galleries

The Kemper Art Museum will open three special exhibits as well as additional galleries for the museum’s permanent collection, Feb. 7.

Rory Mather | Contributing Reporter

Ai Weiwei challenges his viewers with ‘Human Flow’

Ai Weiwei’s “Human Flow” is a meditation on misery that is a challenge, privilege and responsibility to watch. The film focuses on the journeys of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) as they move from temporary location to temporary location, and provides both close-ups of individual situations and detached shots filmed using drones.

Olivia Blumenshine | Contributing Writer

Kemper Museum reopens with Ai Weiwei’s ‘Bare Life’ exhibition

The Kemper Art Museum celebrated reopening its doors with a special exhibition by contemporary Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei Sept. 28.

| Senior Editor

Ai Weiwei’s ‘Bare Life’ showcases complex style and worldwide activism

Artist, activist, master of the readymade style and political exile of his own country, Ai Weiwei is one of the best-known figures of the modern art world. His new exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, titled “Bare Life,” is divided into two sections: “Bare Life” and “Rupture”.

Lydia McKelvie | Contributing Writer

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