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10-15-2010, 02:46 PM | #16 |
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1
LONDON (AP) - An art exhibition involving 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds has been closed to visitors because it is generating dust that is a potential health hazard, the Tate Modern gallery said Friday. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei filled a giant hall at the London gallery with a 1,000 sq. meter (10,000 sq. foot) carpet of the imitation seeds, made by thousands of workers in China over a two-year period. Visitors were invited to walk across the surface when the show opened earlier this week. But the gallery said Friday that the "enthusiastic interaction of visitors" was causing a dust cloud that could be harmful if inhaled over a long period. It said visitors would no longer be allowed to walk across the seeds, though they can be viewed from a walkway above the hall. The commissions in the huge Turbine Hall have become one of the most popular attractions at Tate Modern, a former power station that opened as a gallery in 2000 and draws 4 million visitors a year. It is not the first time an exhibition there has caused mishaps. In 2007 three visitors tumbled into Doris Salcedo's "Shibboleth," a jagged crack running the length of the room. Last year a man was injured in Polish artist Miroslaw Balka's "How It Is," which invited visitors into a pitch-black room. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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10-15-2010, 02:58 PM | #17 |
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Bummer, walking across, and running them through your fingers, is more than half the experience. Dashes my hopes one of the Brits would steal me one, too.
It's hard to believe something made in China would be toxic.
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10-16-2010, 03:07 AM | #18 |
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Ai Weiwei under house arrest
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11-06-2010, 06:03 AM | #20 |
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Good'ol China. Never a dull moment with the commies.
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11-06-2010, 06:40 AM | #21 |
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11-06-2010, 10:05 AM | #22 |
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Somewhat off subject ...
A TV link to China just this morning included a Buddist Monk talking about modern China having lost it's way from the old wisdoms. He then did a large calligraphy of an old poem. When asked what it said: "Everything we see with our eyes has both good and evil, ugly and beauty" "It is our heart that tells us the difference" /Now back to OP... |
11-06-2010, 10:36 AM | #23 |
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Typical Buddhist Monk, keeps talking and says nothing, except you're on your own.
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