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(Video link here.) We just heard the astonishing news that Lego, a company whose product we have featured numerous times as a symbol of possibility, has refused to fill a large order of its plastic bricks — an art material — for Chinese artist’s Ai Weiwei upcoming exhibition at in Australia. Their reason: They don’t provide bricks for “political art”. (Read Lego’s response to the museum’s curators here.)
Ai’s postings on his instagram has sent the issue viral, and has become an example of the creative power of the internet, and its unique ability to become an art material in itself. (more…)