Reflecting on the Ai Wei Wei exhibition @ Alcatraz Island
by Angela Gala When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill. — Norma P. Garcia Editor’s note: In April 2015, as part of Elizabeth Pena’s Museums and Social Issues course, twenty museum studies graduate students visited Alcatraz Island. This post by Angela Gala reflects on the centerpiece of the class visit: Chinese artist and political prisoner Ai Wei Wei’s powerful installation about confinement. Our visit to Alcatraz Island last spring was destabilizing and enlightening at […]
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