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Amid Smog Wave, an Artist Molds a Potent Symbol of Beijing’s Pollution

02chinabrick-01-articleLargeBy CHRIS BUCKLEY and ADAM WU December 2, 2015

The artist “Brother Nut” vacuuming the dust near the Beijing National Stadium on Nov. 15, Day 87 of his project to turn the city’s pollution into a tangible brick.
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Beijing has been swamped for days in a beige-gray miasma of smog, bringing coughs and rasping, hospitals crowded from respiratory ailments, a midday sky so dim that it Continue reading