RA Kickstarter

The Royal Academy of Arts in London is the first British gallery to try Kickstarter to raise funds for a show. It hopes to raise £100,000 to import and install in its courtyard eight of Ai Weiwei's Trees as part of a major exhibition of Weiwei's tosh this autumn. I can't imagine Weiwei trekking through the forests of southern China to collect dead branches for his made-up trees. Nor can I imagine him lugging around huge branches in his studio. This is another project to keep his team of artists employed (CLICK).