Lectures at the MFA - Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs

Join us for a conversation between celebrated artist Ai Weiwei and Christina Yu Yu, Matsutaro Shoriki Chair, Art of Asia, as we celebrate the pre-release of the highly anticipated publication of "Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs 1993–2003" by MIT Press. "Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs 1993–2003" is an autobiography in pictures. Ai Weiwei is China’s most celebrated contemporary artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. This book offers an intimate look at Ai Weiwei’s world in the years after his return from New York and preceding his imprisonment and global superstardom. The photographs capture Ai’s emergence as the uniquely provocative artist that he is today. There is no more revealing portrait of Ai Weiwei’s life in China than this. The book contains more than 600 carefully sequenced images culled from an archive of more than 40,000 photographs taken by Ai: a narrative arc carefully shaped by an artist keenly aware of photography’s ability to tell stories. Ai Weiwei, artist Christina Yu Yu, Matsutaro Shoriki Chair, Art of Asia This event is presented by the MIT Press and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Friday, October 26, 2018