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Ai Weiwei assistant Duyan Pili broke the news that Ai's FAKE studio architect Liu Zhenggang and accountant Hu Mingfen have also been released from custody following the artist's release two days ago. Ai's cousin and driver Zhang Jinsong was released yesterday. Reporter Wen Tao is still detained, but
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On Wednesday, I was invited to Al Jazeera to give a context for Ai Weiwei's arrest and eventual release. I felt it was important to point out that the Chinese have been using contemporary art and architecture for years [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/09/artseen/is-contemporary-architecture-a-pr-pa
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Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been released, as has his cousin Zhang Jinsong, but that doesn't mean the story is over. Ai's legal case is still open, China is still detaining and jailing dissidents and the Ai's freedom may just be political image clean-up for the government. What does the r
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Around 5 hours ago, the news broke that Ai Weiwei's cousin and driver Zhang Jingson was to be released on bail, as the artist was yesterday. Zhang is now home and has lost 19 kg; Ai associate Duyan Pili notes that he'll have to lose his nickname of “Little Fatty.”
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Ai Weiwei may have just been freed, but four of his associates are still missing. Wen Tao, Liu Zhenggang, Zhang Jingsong, and Hu Mingfen were arrested along with Ai Weiwei and are presumably still in prison. Here is some information about them.
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Beijing government news outlet Xinhua has just announced that detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been released on bail, having confessed to his tax crimes and stated his willingness to pay the taxes he is said to have evaded. “A chronic disease” that the artist suffers from was also a factor in h
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Today in putting your money where your mouth is: famed British artist Anish Kapoor has rejected an offer to show his work at the National Museum of China in Beijing in protest of Ai Weiwei's ongoing arrest and detention. This, plus Chinese artists arrested for mounting a protest exhibition and the U
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This week… the Rothko Chapel at 40, artists and their audiences, Ai Weiwei 25 yrs ago, ageism & photographers, honeybees & humans design together, the commerce of fan art, Tintoretto at the Venice Biennale, AIDS at 30, IBM & the Met collaborate to preserve art, Kickstarter is the 3rd largest comic b
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Dan Keegan, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, has recently been shoving his foot farther and farther into his mouth with statements about museums' role in politics. Namely, he thinks that museums should be apolitical, and he has stated that his museum's decision to collaborate with Chinese museu
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Is it time for the Western art world to join Chinese social media? That depends on your goals. “I don't see any reason for anyone not directly involved in the Beijing/Shanghai art world to be on Weibo,” argued Robin Peckham. “It's more about back-and-forth in-scene and doesn't have much application
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Tyler Green has this incredible story — China is demanding the return of two marble chair sculptures by Ai Weiwei recently bought by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego due to a claimed export license problem. Is China trying to censor Ai's work abroad?
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Earlier this morning, we posted a video of Cuban artist Geandy (pronounced jee-ahndy) Pavon projecting Ai Weiwei's portrait onto the street side of the New York City Chinese Consulate, a guerrilla protest for the detained artist. In this exclusive Q+A, Pavon explains how he did it, what the reaction