Lego allows use of bricks in political art projects

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has hailed a change in policy by Lego to allow bulk orders of its toy bricks for projects with a political purpose. He says it is a victory for freedom of expression.

The Lego Group last year refused a bulk order of toy bricks for an exhibition of Ai’s in Melbourne, Australia.

Ai said that was “an act of censorship and discrimination”, but Lego said it had a decades-old policy of not endorsing the use of its bricks in projects with a “political agenda”.