Foong is referencing Ai Weiwei's "Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn" in 1995. The performance was photographed and now the images of the artist breaking a 2,000-year-old urn hang on the walls of the ...

Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo, 2014 – Ai has been exploring ancient artefacts in his work from the start of his career (Credit: Courtesy of Ai Weiwei studio) ...

During Ai Weisei’s retrospective show at the Perez Art Museum Miami in 2014, a man approached the installation of sixteen vases and the Dropping the Han Dynasty Urn print.

Glass Vase (2023) is an excellent example of Ai Weiwei's ongoing interrogation of capitalism, commodity culture, and it relationship to antiquities - a project which began with his (in)famous Dropping ...

A man has smashed a sculpture by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei during the private opening of his exhibition in the northern Italian city of Bologna.

Ai, too, has destroyed artifacts in the name of art. In 1995, he photographed himself dropping and shattering a 2,000-year-old Han dynasty urn.

One of Ai’s most famous pieces, “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, (1995)” captures the artist as he drops a 2,000-year-old ceremonial urn, allowing it to smash to the floor at his feet.