WEST YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND
Animal encounters at Yorkshire Sculpture Park have hitherto been limited to the sheep grazing its fields. Now, for the outdoor gallery’s 40th anniversary, Chinese artist and keen controversialist Ai Weiwei has installed his globe-trotting series of 12 zodiac animal heads. These are outsize versions of bronzes looted by British and French troops from Beijing’s Summer Palace in 1860. Standing taller than the viewer, the effigies are his response to a modern cause célèbre in China.