Just Don't Eat Them: Ai Weiwei Drops Off 100 Million Sunflower Seeds at the Tate Modern

Since yesterday we made a departure from our regular posts about Prince Charles being a Scrooge-like, anti-modernism naysayer and instead talked about the good one of his charities is doing in Haiti, we ran into another occasion to talk about someone else in a new context. Artist Ai Weiwei, who we’ve usually brought up either because he’s protesting against injustices in his native China or is being beaten by the Chinese police for doing just that, has made a big splash this week with the opening of his installation at the Tate Modern, “Sunflower