I met Ai Weiwei not long after he arrived in New York City. I had worked at Central Broadcasting in Beijing for a year in 1980-81 and had met several of the leading artists in the dissident groupXing XingorStar Star. In the fall of 1980 they were granted space in the National Gallery...
The insightful, fun, and sometimes deadly serious documentaryAi Weiwei: Never Sorry (艾未未:道歉你妹; title in Taiwan 艾未未:草泥馬)has beenOscar shortlistedfrom 126 films down to 15, coming out ahead of films like “The Central Park Five” by the legendaryKen Burnset al, and “Head Games”...
Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and activist whose work included sculptural installations, architectural projects, photographs, and videos. While Ai’s art was lauded internationally, its frequently provocative dimension as well as his political outspokenness
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publishing books such asGuilai de ge(1980; “Song of Returning”).Selected Poems of Ai Qingwas published in 1982, and his entireoeuvrewas published asAi Qing quanji(“The Complete Works of Ai Qing”) in 1991. Ai Qing’s sonAi Weiwei(born 1957) was a noted artist and also an activist....