Lego declines to bulk-sell bricks for political purposes,but what’s their definition of ‘political’? Ai Weiwei may be able to helpLast week, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was denied a bulk order of Lego bricks for a new work for Melbourne’s NGV, and as “the company refused to approve the exhaust of Legos for political works”.
As the planned work was to explore the subject of free expression,Lego’s statement would be amusing whether its political implications were not so grim.
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Source: theguardian.com