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PUNE, INDIA — Yet another "season" of American elections is at our doorstep. "Season" is well-accepted television jargon in India now. Many young, urban Indian tele-watchers have picked up the "season thing" easily. These young Indians also ardently follow and virtually participate in the very wello
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You may have seen it in the New York Times: a half-page ad warning readers “Do not enter the Netherlands. Cultural meltdown in progress.” The ad (which apparently cost $26,000) was bought by a group called Dutch Artists 2011 to protest the catastrophic funding cuts proposed by Holland's Geert Wilder
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At Pitti Immagine, one of the largest fashion trade shows in Florence, Dame Vivienne Westwood debuted her second Ethical Fashion Africa Collection in partnership with the International Trade Centre. The first, back in February, was a small offering of three tote bags, but for her sophomore effort sh
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According to Ai Weiwei's lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan, Ai's FAKE studio has been accused (and seemingly convicted) of evading over 5 million RMB ($770,000 USD) and is to pay 7 million RMB ($1 million USD) in fines, together totaling around $2 million USD. Ai's mother Gao Ying speaks on her son's arrest, rele
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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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Khaled Jarrar is stamping the passports of tourists arriving at the West Bank with a voluntary entry stamp for Palestine. This isn't official practice or policy, though. The Palestinian artist is mounting his own form of political protest through a conceptual work of art, seen in a video by NTD TV.
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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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There's a lot of art news coming out of Milwaukee this week and all of it makes some of us wondering what the hell is happening in the city we normally associate with Laverne & Shirley and bratwurst. First, the director of Milwaukee Art Museum made silly comments that museums should not be political
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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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Xinhua reports that Ai Weiwei's FAKE studio evaded tax and intentionally destroyed accounting documents. US museums debate the ethics of working with Chinese organizations. Art Basel buys the Art HK fair, provoking some to call for a boycott.