Design
Ai Weiwei's Art Reaches New York's Streets
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors is perhaps the artist’s most ambitious public project yet.
Ai Weiwei walked into Columbia University’s Arthur Miller Theater last week with the gait of a man who’s seen much and said little.
The Chinese artist, now living in Berlin, spoke on stage with Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia’s School of the Arts; and Amale Andraos, Dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). For just over an hour, their conversation covered Ai’s career and his participation in the Ordos 100 project, where 100 architects, including the firm workAC (co-founded by Dean Andraos) were invited to design pop-up villas in rural Mongolia. They also discussed some of his newest works, many of which were unveiled this week in New York.