Beads Make Money

Lisa Lou's beaded objects

"most amazing tone, colour, kind of light that you can work with"

made of millions of beads with the help of African volunteers:

quantity creates - not quality - but fame and money

White Cube

Ai Weiwei's Crusade

 Money wrapped fruits and paper airplane notes
 thrown over the wall of Ai WeiWei's home 
donated to the artist to pay his huge tax fine in China.

“...every penny borrowed or made from China has really come as a result of how this nation sacrificed everybody’s rights.”