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
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 documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (艾未未:道歉你妹; title in Taiwan 艾未未:草泥馬) has been Oscar shortlisted from 126 films down to 15, coming out ahead of films like “The Central Park Five” by the legendary Ken Burns et al, and “Head...