Jack Shepard: The Independent
The artist Ai Weiwei has offered to buy 30 tonnes worth of buttons from a Croydon-based factory that is closing down.
Weiwei, who has previously created artworks out of thousands of Lego bricks and shells, was responding to a message on Twitter when he made the offer.
“I’ve been asked to share this call to save buttons from landfill,” the initial tweet by Amy Clare Tasker reads.
The artist Ai Weiwei has offered to buy 30 tonnes worth of buttons from a Croydon-based factory that is closing down. …Read More
Image: Ai Weiwei holds some seeds from his Unilever Installation ‘Sunflower Seeds’ at The Tate Modern in 2010 ( Getty Images )