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Lego Says Refusing Ai Weiwei Was a Mistake- artnet News

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Lego Admits Refusing to Supply Artist and Activist Ai Weiwei Was a Mistake

The Lego vice-chairman says the decision was taken by a low-level employee.

Amah-Rose Abrams, April 28, 2016
Ai Weiwei in Lego Room (2015) Photo: courtesy of the National Gallery of Victoria
Ai Weiwei in Lego Room (2015)
Photo: courtesy of the National Gallery of Victoria

Lego vice-chairman Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen has said that the company’s refusal to supply Ai Weiwei with a bulk order last year was a mistake.

“It was an internal mistake,” Kristiansen told the Wall Street Journal, adding that the decision to refuse the order was taken by a low level employee, who took the company’s policy too literally, and that the board was not involved.

“It is a typical example of what can go wrong in a big company,” said Thomas Kirk Kristiansen, son and successor of Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen.

Assent | Oscar Raby
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Oscar Raby is a multimedia artist looking into the contemporary and future ways of storytelling. His experience working in projects at the Memory and Human Rights Museum in Chile as well as the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia has allowed him to explore how history is built and reconstructed by the curated narrative of institutions. His interest lies in using New Media to rearrange that narrative by facilitating the interaction between audience and artefacts.
In 2013 he completed a Masters degree in Animation and Interactive Media at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology where the subject of his research was Portraiture in New Media. His graduating work, the Virtual Reality documentary Assent, has been part of festivals in Australia, Canada, USA, Mexico, the Netherlands and the UK. Assent received the Audience Award for Cross-platform at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014.

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Artist Ai Weiwei banned from using Lego to build Australian artwork | Art and design | The Guardian
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Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei says Danish toymaker Lego has refused his studio’s request for a bulk order of the plastic toys on political grounds.

In an Instagram post on Friday evening, the artist said Lego had refused the bulk order in September, quoting the company as saying it “cannot approve the use of Legos for political works”.

The artist’s accusation follows news this week that British firm Merlin Entertainments will open a Legoland park in Shanghai in conjunction with a Chinese partner. That announcement, timed to coincide with Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit to the UK, seems to have prompted the artist’s Instagram post.

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Ai Weiwei swamped by Lego donation offers after ban on use for ’political’ artwork | Art and design | The Guardian
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Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has been inundated with Lego brick donation offers after the Danish toy maker refused a request for a bulk order of the plastic toys on political grounds.
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On Friday, the artist said Lego refused his studio’s request for an order to create an artwork about free speech to be shown at the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia for an Andy Warhol/Ai Weiwei exhibition in December.

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Artist Ai Weiwei hits out over Lego ’censorship’ - BBC News
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Artist Ai Weiwei has accused Lego of “censorship and discrimination” after the company refused to let him to use its bricks in a new exhibition.

Lego refused a bulk order for bricks that were to be used in a new artwork about political dissidents as part of an exhibition in Melbourne, Australia.

Toymaker Lego said it never sold directly to anyone wanting to use its product to make a political statement.

The artist has since been deluged with offers of Lego from supporters.

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Australia: National Gallery of Victoria patrons denounce selloff of Detroit masterpieces - World Socialist Web Site

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Australia: National Gallery of Victoria patrons denounce selloff of Detroit masterpieces

By our reporters
3 January 2014

World Socialist Web Site reporters recently spoke with people outside the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne about plans by the unelected financial manager of Detroit, Kevin Orr, to sell off part of the Detroit Institute of Arts priceless art collection in order to pay the American city’s wealthy bondholders.

Founded in 1861, the NGV is Australia’s oldest art gallery, maintaining a collection of 68,000 works of art, including pieces by major international figures such as Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck, Mark Rothko, William Blake and many others. The reporting team distributed WSWS articles to patrons of the gallery, located in Melbourne’s arts precinct.

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