Ai Weiwei Teams Up with Avant Arte to Make his Iconic Artwork Middle Finger Available to All
It has always been a part of people's visual vocabulary to use what is perceived as obscene or vulgar to state their stance towards power structures, to express political disagreements, to invoke supernatural powers, or to defy social norms. In antiquity, the phallus motif was persistently repeated among many scribbles on the walls, bearing a specific symbolic meaning. During the Roman…