“Ai Weiwei: Trace” at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles presents three of the six floor panels Ai Weiwei created in 2014 for a site-specific exhibition in San Francisco on Alcatraz Island concerning prisoners of conscience, political prisoners, and those subject to unlawful detention and, in some cases, torture. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens in Washington D.C. subsequently acquired the panels and then, in turn, made the exhibition available to the Skirball. The exhibiti…
