Today Ai Weiwei enjoys a reputation far beyond the art world. While his vast social or performance-based interventions and appropriated object-based artworks have secured his place as one of the world’s leading conceptual artists, Ai is equally known as a social media phenomenon, a political activist, and an outspoken champion of free expression in his native China, where he earnt an 81-day police detention in 2011.
You can never start too early teaching your kids the value of
acquiring art. That's one message — probably not the right one — behind
Bugaboo's three limited-edition Andy Warhol strollers adorned with the
artist's 1980 portrait of Debbie Harry, circa Blondie. Starting next
week, in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation, Bugaboo — the
Dutch baby-mobility company — will auction them off, with all profits going to the UK charity Kids Company.
This
is just the latest art-minded collab for Bugaboo, who've previously
created Warhol-created strollers, and who've previously partnered with
Marc Jacobs, Missoni, Henrik Vibskov, and Viktor & Rolf. The latter
came up with My First Car, a gray-drab stroller costing in the four
digits, souped up with hand-stitched leatherette and a separate
footmuff. The allusion to Victorian-era baby pushers was no doubt lost
on the little tykes who rode in them. But pop art, on the other hand —
even adult babies are dazzled by that.
