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Karen Smith: Ai Weiwei [2009] paperback PUZZL Sabina makes a late nightAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is truly an artist for the twenty first century. In his sculptures he refashions artefacts and antiques into surprising, sometimes monumental constructions such as Template (2007): hundreds of wooden doors and windows taken from demolished Ming and Qing dynasty temples and arranged into a massive outdoor sculpture. As much as these materials look to the past, they also speak of the present, because never before (and probably never