Ai Weiwei, Caonima ​Balloon
Update: Ai Weiwei has gifted the Letgo room to the NGV collection.
Although Ai Weiwei is one of the world’s most famous artists, there will plenty of Australians who have never heard of the Chinese dissident artist. So it is a stroke of marketing genius to juxtapose ​the 21st century’s iconoclast with his 20th century counterpart Andy Warhol.
