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By rojo

Is it art?

Today it was a trip ti the Tait modern art exhibit. The Turbine Hall has been filled with sunflower seeds. 100 million of them, weighing about 150 tonnes.

This was taken from a London review site....

The blurb for Chinese artist's Ai Weiwei's installation, the 11th in the Unilever Series since the gallery opened in 2000, runs the risk of censure from the Campaign for Plain English. "What you see is not what you see, and what you see is not what it means", the sombre curatorial message reads. Yet there is truth to this gnomic statement. The seeds are not real, they're fashioned from ceramic (we're waiting for the inevitable legal case when somebody loses a molar after nibbling on one). And each one is unique, individually hand carved by an army of artisans working in the city of Jingdezhen. They've spent two years working on them just so they can be crushed under the sweaty feet of Londoners.

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