Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds: Does It Still Work If You Can’t Roll Around in It?

Adrian Searle: “You can now only look at it, from a distance, sombre in winter light, inert. It is a work that demands that you walk on it – that you feel it. This is the classic story of the gallery both as midwife, helping the artist give birth to a work, and as its castrator.”