Ai Weiwei unveils his epic new Australian work: ‘90% of art is just garbage. Real art questions the existing order’

The Guardian 10 h ago

From his farm in Portugal, the acclaimed artist speaks about war, peace, the state of the world – and his 40 metre sculpture Mushrooms, on Sydney Harbour“It’s like a film set. Like it’s not real,” the bemused Uber driver says as we pass through a succession of silent rural villages washed with milky sunlight.

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