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Work By China's Ai Weiwei Coming To Smithsonian

AP | Posted 01.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sculptures by an outspoken Chinese artist are going on display at Smithsonian museums in Washington. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (EYE' WAY...

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Ai Weiwei's Supporters Tweet Naked Photos (NSFW)

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 11.21.2011

Nudity is not pornography -- that's the message supporters of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei have taken to heart following news that police have started an ...

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Ai Weiwei Pays Up

AP/ The Huffington Post | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 01.15.2012

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BEIJING -- Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said he deposited a $1.3 million guarantee into a government bank account Tuesday out of concern for his...

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Big Development In Ai Weiwei's Appeal

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 01.14.2012

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BEIJING — Dissident artist Ai Weiwei said Tuesday that Chinese authorities have threatened to turn his company's tax case over to police if he d...

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Chinese Citizens Band Together To Pay Ai Weiwei's Taxes

Posted 01.04.2012

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Not since Spartacus has there been such a widespread act of generosity for an activist and leader. On November 1, the Chinese government declared that...

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Why Does Ai Weiwei Owe China $2.4 Million?

nytimes.com | ANDREW JACOBS | Posted 01.01.2012

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BEIJING -- Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist whose secret detention earlier this year stirred an international outcry, has been given two weeks to pay $...

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Ai Weiwei Named Most Powerful Artist... To China's Dismay

Posted 12.13.2011

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Every year ArtReview publishes a list of the 100 most powerful names in art, in their words, the most successful of the "dancers who’ve spent the pa...

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Ai Weiwei Named Most Powerful Artist

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 12.13.2011

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BEIJING — Influential British magazine Art Review has named China's politically outspoken Ai Weiwei as its most powerful artist of 2011. The ho...

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PHOTOS: Ai Weiwei Back With New Exhibition

Posted 11.26.2011

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In his new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, notorious trickster-activist Ai Weiwei playfully approaches serious subject matter. The sho...

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WATCH: Ai Weiwei Released From Prison

Posted 08.22.2011

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After being imprisoned for three months in a Chinese prison, artist-activist Ai Weiwei has been released on bail. Originally detained while try...

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Ai Weiwei Is Not a Criminal

Alison Klayman | Posted 06.04.2011

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Over the last two years I had an exceptional degree of access to Weiwei's life. His ability to voice his opinions for the past several years was a sign of hope for China, making his detainment now all the more disconcerting.

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