“Ai Weiwei ‘Literally’ Smashes China’s Traditions in Art and Architecture” – Really?!

Ai Weiwei, a contemporary Chinese artist, was widely reported to “literally” destroy China’s tradition in art in his 1995 act of dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) urn and breaking it.An article calls this performance “an iconoclastic act”. Ai was quoted as saying that this gesture is “powerful only because someone thinks ...