Ai Weiwei returns to New York with four solo gallery shows

The ever popular Ai Weiwei will return to New York in November with four big gallery shows, two at Mary Boone, one at Deitch Projects, and one at Lissons recently opened US outpost in Chelsea. Three of the shows, organised under the title Roots and Branches, feature tree-inspired sculptures, while the fourth will incorporate clothing from the refugee camps the Chinese activist-artist has visited.Though Ai lived in New York for many years in the 1980s, the artist was unable to attend many of his