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Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, Trace exhibit
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Finally, Details about Ai Weiwei's "@Large" Exhibition on Alcatraz Island Have Been Released
Complex Art+Design

Finally, details about Ai Weiwei's exhibition on Alcatraz Island have been released. Arguably the most anticipated show of the year, "@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz" will see seven original, site-specific installations strewn throughout four spots on the island, For-Site Foundation revealed. The whole idea behind staging the show at the former prison turned national park is to prompt viewers to question the world's current state of human rights.

Ai Weiwei's Alcatraz Exhibition '@Large' Opens September 27th
SFist

Celebrated Chinese dissident, architect and artist Ai Weiwei's highly anticipated exhibition "@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz" will open this fall on September 27th and run through the end of April 2015. The exhibition will feature seven site-specific installations in four different locations on the former federal prison island, three of which are not normally open to the sightseeing public.

Alcatraz Tickets Expected to Become Scarce During Ai Weiwei Installation
KQED Arts

Workers will begin assembling @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz in buildings that are part of the old military and federal prison in late August. It’s a perfect venue for an artist who has riled government officials in Beijing to the point of his own imprisonment.

@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz' tickets go on sale June 27
San Francisco Chronicle

Tickets to "@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz" will go on sale June 27. The show, which will feature seven site-specific installations by the Chinese conceptual artist and political activist Ai Weiwei, opens Sept. 27.

BioBlitz Bobcast: Counting Critters and Organizing Organisms
National Geographic

In this installment of BioBlitz 2014 video coverage, we highlight the taxonomists whose job it is to find and identify species, and to organize the wide variety of life on earth.

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