--- title: Australia: Gallery Has Lego Collection Point for Ai Weiwei description: The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has set up one of the first Lego collection points in the world for artist Ai Weiwei canonical: https://time.com/4092132/national-gallery-of-victoria-lego-collection-point/ author: Joanna Plucinska article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-29T05:12:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:04:50.385Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: This Gallery Set Up a Lego Collection Point for Ai Weiwei og:description: "We are pleased to be the first international collection point." og:url: https://time.com/4092132/national-gallery-of-victoria-lego-collection-point/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd4aa0d985ad0bc2/69886ea6a988ca21a26b5092/img_0091.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2424 og:image:height: 1364 og:image:alt: img_0091.jpg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Gallery Set Up a Lego Collection Point for Ai Weiwei twitter:description: "We are pleased to be the first international collection point." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd4aa0d985ad0bc2/69886ea6a988ca21a26b5092/img_0091.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # One of Australia's Top Art Galleries Has Set Up a Lego Collection Point for Ai Weiwei > Sponsored content. 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Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei talks about the meaning of his striking cover art for TIME magazine's 'The World According to China' issue._ by [Joanna Plucinska](https://time.com/author/joanna-plucinska/) ## Joanna Plucinska Oct 29, 2015 5:12 AM UTC  National Gallery of Victoria by [Joanna Plucinska](https://time.com/author/joanna-plucinska/) ## Joanna Plucinska Oct 29, 2015 5:12 AM UTC The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne has set up a Lego collection point for Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei after he [posted on Instagram](http://time.com/4086548/ai-weiwei-lego-art-twitter-fans/) that the toy firm had officially denied him a bulk order of their signature blocks. Lego said it was against company policy to support political works. “We have received many offers of donations of Lego in the past days,” NGV director Tony Ellwood said in a statement. “People have shown their generosity, creative spirit and enthusiasm to become engaged in this project, and we are pleased to be the first international collection point.” As of Wednesday, passers-by could donate to Ai’s art project by pouring their Lego blocks into the sunroof of a car parked in the sculpture garden of the gallery. The NGV decided to set up the donation point after #LegosForWeiwei began trending on Twitter, with fans openly offering their own Lego collections so the artist could complete his new installation. “Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei,” an exhibition that will feature both Ai and Andy Warhol’s works, is set to open at the NGV on Dec. 11. ## Transcript [00:02] >>It's China and some part of this globe and [00:07] the image of Chinese map is construct with the [00:12] old money sign and the flowers, which means very [00:18] prosper. [ unk ] were large a push to, you know, that [00:22] covers the whole surface. That's how China is look at [00:25] itself. China, [00:30] they means money and they become powerful [00:34] in certain sense and you have-- they think they have [00:38] some rights to talk that to the world. I [00:42] don't think that Time Magazine can be seen in China. [00:46] It's still, you know, it's like Google or Tetris, [00:50] it's not welcome. It's not popular here. And for [00:54] people to see this, [ unk ] China were such a large [00:59] image in the purport from this the global situation [01:04] and, you know, all the shining-- it's very [01:08] much like in the revolutionary time or in North Korea. [01:12] They have these kind of right-- this kind of [01:16] illusions and under the sense [01:21] construct it's about money and it's about, you [01:25] know, some kind of dreams are in a prosperity which [01:30] for most people is already [ unk ] that makes kinda [01:33] sense. As a way to avoid [01:39] reality to face in the difficulty problems, [01:44] they should face under the hours trying to push it [01:48] away, trying to come up these some kind of [01:53] illusion or fiction about China. I think 'cause they know [01:57] exactly what is happening and you see all the leaders, [02:01] politicians, one [ unk ] is purely just for their [02:06] control. It's not they don't understand, you know, the [02:09] so- called China [ unk ]. It's just fragile as the paper [02:12] cut. You know, it's also, it's so [02:17] no meaning. I mean, let's just say illusion there and-- [02:20] but that is not attractive enough. It doesn't really [02:26] hold up with today's challenge. 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