Ai Weiwei Installation Coming to Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island

Ai Weiwei installation coming to Roosevelt Island

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei will unveil his first major artwork in New York City since 2017 this fall. Four Freedoms Park Conservancy on Thursday announced it had commissioned the Chinese artist for a monumental installation on Roosevelt Island that will open this September. “Camouflage” will take over all 3.5 acres of FDR Four Freedoms State Park, with an open architectural structure that rises above its granite walls and is draped in camoufl…

Monumental Art Installation by Ai Weiwei Inaugurates New Public Art Commissioning Program at FDR Four Freedoms State Park

The inaugural Art X Freedom commission will be a monumental new public art installation by artist and activist Ai Weiwei.

Ai Weiwei Installation Coming to Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island

The Four Freedoms Park Conservancy announced on Thursday that it has commissioned the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for a monumental installation on Roosevelt Island that will kick off a new public art initiative by the conservancy. The artist’s work will be on view starting in September at the state park, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous speech on human rights is memorialized in bronze and granite. Ai plans to cover sections of the par…