3200只螃蟹與無法阻止的艾未未

Despite being prevented from leaving China, Ai Weiwei manages to maintain a healthy international career. If one were to judge by news media attention alone, one might think him the only Chinese contemporary artist in existence. His most innovative work has been through various forms of social media, in what might be called a continuing digital version of performance art. (A book of his blog posts, published in 2011, remains his magnum opus.)

儘管艾未未被禁止離開中國，但他還是保持了健康發展的國際事業。如果單從媒體關注的角度看，人們可能會覺得他是現存唯一的中國當代藝術家。他最有創意的作品是通過各種形式的社交媒體呈現，可以被稱爲一種不間斷的數碼形式的行爲藝術（2011年出版的一本關於他的博客帖子的書仍是他的代表作）。

But he also makes objects and installations, and about 30 examples of these are included in "Ai Weiwei: According to What?," a traveling retrospective organized by the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. It appeared at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington last year and arrives at the Brooklyn Museum on Friday.

但是他也製作物品和裝置作品，其中大約30件作品被收入東京的森美術館(Mori Art Museum)組織的流動回顧展“艾未未：憑什麼？”(Ai Weiwei: According to What?)。該展覽去年在華盛頓的赫什霍恩博物館和雕塑園舉行，週五來到布魯克林博物館。

The Brooklyn show is reported to be an expanded version of the original, which is appropriate for an artist who, as if in direct response to political suppression, is irrepressibly productive. (Through Aug. 10, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park; 718-638-5000, .)

據報道，布魯克林的展覽是最初展覽的擴展版，這很適合這位創作力無法遏制的藝術家，彷彿是對政治迫害的直接回應（展覽將持續到8月10日；展望公園東路200號；718-638-5000；）。