Asia Society to Spotlight Ai Weiwei's New York Photography (ARTINFO)

ARTINFO - New York was not always kind to Ai Weiwei. Living here between 1983 and 1993, he dropped out of art school, took an assortment of odd jobs, and even worked as a street portraitist to make money, an experience that made him disenchanted with the plight of immigrants in New York. "After 10 years living here, I don't think there's so much opportunity," he told the New York Times in 1991, after a random crime took the life of a fellow Chinese immigrant artist.

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