16.5 x 16.5 x 16.5 in. (41.9 x 41.9 x 41.9 cm.) London, Tate, The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds, exh. cat., 2010-2011, p. 63, no. 47 (another unique ...
This is the first Art Diary of 2025. Viewing art, as with its making, involves paying attention. As Simone Weil once pointed out, paying attention equates to prayer.
Reference to Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei (Ài Wèiwei 艾未未). The use of this code lead to the phrase "love the future" being blocked from Weibo search results around June-August 2011.
This is not necessarily down to the existential threat generative AI can have on ‘content’ – a big part of my job – and various jobs, art forms, information decimation, and more.