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As the Beijing Winter Olympics gets underway, artist Ai Weiwei is once again criticizing China’s ruling Communist Party – and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which he said is ...
Chinese authorities are razing one of the Beijing studios of dissident artist Ai Weiwei. He said that demolition crews showed up without advance warning, and have begun the process of tearing down ...
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said that his Beijing studio was demolished without warning Saturday. The Berlin-based artist, who left China three years ago, posted videos of the brick and concrete ...
Ai Weiwei, an artist known as China's Andy Warhol, helped design the Bird's Nest. Then he did a surprising thing: He walked away and boycotted the Beijing Olympics, accusing the Chinese government ...
But since the Beijing Olympics and the Sichuan earthquake ... I’m not sure what the Chinese government will do with Ai Weiwei,” says Pollack. “What he’s done is really quite heroic ...
Beginning Saturday, it's also the site of an installation by one of China's most famous dissident artists, Ai Weiwei. The work, "@Large" explores themes of freedom and confinement. Finding freedom ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Dissident Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is taking heart from recent ... The recent unrest in several Chinese cities that has questioned Beijing’s authority — going so far as to demand ...