Ai Weiwei's Life Cycle (2018) is on show at the non-profit Marciano Art Foundation in LA Image courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio It will be hard to avoid Ai Weiwei on the US West Coast this autumn. The Chinese artist and activist boosts his commercial and critical profile in California with three shows launching the same week, including an exhibition of new and early works at veteran dealer Jeffrey Deitch
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