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BEIJING — "BEIJING AUTUMN: OFF THE RADAR ART RESISTANCE IN CAOCHANGDI ---CCD300" is the SMS that was sent to advertise an exhibition project called Manmade and Natural Disasters, started by a group of artists living and working in the Caochangdi art village to the northeast of Beijing. A similar not
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With this one, the title pretty much says it all. Ai Weiwei's entire studio has participated in a remake of South Korean rapper PSY's epic global pop hit "Gangnam Style."
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BERKELEY, California — At Haines Gallery in San Francisco’s Financial District, I finally got to see Ai Weiwei’s notorious “Kui Hua Zi” (Sunflower Seeds). There has been much hype around Ai Weiwei and this particular installation, and seeing it caught me by surprise. The Haines Gallery installation
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Last Thursday, the Chinese government rejected artist Ai Weiwei's appeal of a $2.4 million fine levied against his FAKE design studio company for tax evasion, a charge that most regard as trumped up to justify the artist's arrest last year. Ai says there's no way he'll pay.
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Even before the current documentary about him was out in theaters, Ai Weiwei had become the poster child for China's repression of dissenting artists. But Der Spiegel has a profile of 30-year-old Zhao Zhao, a former assistant of Ai's and an artist in his own right who's been facing increased pressur
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While thinking about how the internet is changing how we find and promote art, it's important to highlight a new tool that might help us understand our online presence: Klout. What is an artist's reach? How many people can be expected to show up for a young artist's solo show? Which critics really m
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A year ago Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was slapped with bail conditions — after an 81-day detention by Chinese authorities — the prominent activist and artist has been freed from those shackles, but there's no rejoicing because of what may come next.
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Today, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was harassed by police in an attempt to block him from attending his scheduled court appearance at the Beijing tax bureau.
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Alison Klayman’s 90-minute film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry set out to be a portrait of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and along the way morphed into a highbrow, jaw-dropping reality show about fumbling, corrupt governments (China), social media (Twitter), democracy and art (Weiwei) and the power of the st
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Tomorrow, the new Serpentine Pavilion officially opens in London's Kensington Gardens and judging by the photos this year's creation by architects Herzog & de Meuron and artist Ai Weiwei may be one of the most beautiful yet.
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MoMA’s latest thematic exhibition Print/Out aims to examine the ways printing has expanded and molded contemporary art practice. Is it successful?
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"The controls are very strong," Ai told Reuters by telephone. "They (the government) are very insecure, they are not ready for any kind of change."