January 1983

Ai Weiwei enrols in Parsons New School for Design in Greenwich Village, studying with Sean Scully and others, but drops out after six months. He also studies at the Art Students League in New York with Richard Pousette-Dart, Bruce Dorfman and Knox Martin. He visits museums and galleries and is influenced by such artists as Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns.

Photo: Ai Weiwei in front of To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour, 1918, feuille d’argent, fil de plomb et verre by Marcel Duchamp, New York, Museum of Modern Art.