Art
I highly recommend you watch all four parts of this recent BBC documentary about Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, Ai Weiwei — Without Fear or Favor. It is fantastic and informative. Ai is one of the most important artists in the world today. If you don’t know who he is or
News
RT @markmackinnon [http://twitter.com/markmackinnon]: Dissident artist @aiww [http://twitter.com/aiww], freed from own house arrest, argues with police outside Wu Yuren trial http://twitpic.com/37i26l [http://twitpic.com/37i26l]less than a minute ago [http://twitter.com/#!/AWWNeverSorry/status/47110
Opinion
In a column for Artnet [http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/finch/ai-weiwei-under-arrest11-12-10.asp], veteran art critic and grumbly curmudgeon/cheerleader Charlie Finch responds to Ai Weiwei's recent house arrest with an ultimatum: the art world should stop having anything to do with China.
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It’s worth your time to read the whole thing [http://aiwwenglish.tumblr.com/post/1525958345/the-river-crab-banquet-images-and-report-from-rachel], it has some GREAT photos! [@aiwwenglish [http://aiwwenglish.tumblr.com/]]
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Beijing-based writer and art professional Melanie Wang brought to our attention the upcoming November 17th court case of Wu Yuren, a Chinese photographer and installation artist whose provocative work and political activism have earned him the nickname “Little Ai [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo
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A number of news sources are reporting that Chinese art great Ai Weiwei is under house arrest in his north Beijing home. “I am under house arrest,” Mr Ai told The Daily Telegraph by telephone. “They asked me not to go and to tell everyone the party was off, but I said I couldn’t do that and they’d h
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Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds at the Tate's Turbine Hall space in London opened to a good deal of rejoicing. Viewers and critics alike were entranced by the installation, a field of 100 million sunflower seeds that were actually carved from porcelain. An abundance of press photos show exhibition-goers
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Ai Weiwei, internationally famed artist and chief provocateur of the Chinese art world, opened his London Turbine Hall installation today, the eleventh, and first for an Asian artist, in the Tate's Unilever series of exhibitions. The installation forms a gesture both classic for the artist and yet t
Art
As Frog design Creative Director Adam Richardson noted in an influential talk he gave at the most recent Next Web Conference, the Internet until recently has been like the railroad, which has forced us to adapt to its rules. In the coming years, it will be more like cars, which adapt to us. In other
Art
The most striking aspect of social media art is that it contains facets of net.art, by being digital; visual art, by existing on a two-dimensional surface; public art, by existing in spaces used habitually by hundreds of millions of people; and performance art, by being inherently social. Whether th
Opinion
Chances are if you’ve been following art news in the past few weeks, you’ve seen the name Ai Weiwei. Ai’s been all over the place lately, having a public conversation with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, getting interviewed on CNN about the role of social media in Chinese politics, and documenting recent a