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Ai Weiwei: ‘In the art world, everyone talks about money. It’s poisonous; you’re only worth as much as your work’
China’s most famous artist lives quietly in Portugal. But exile is hard, even if it’s golden. On the occasion of his latest ...
Ai Weiwei on free speech and the fragility of civilisation: ‘Democracy is a failed joke’
Mark Hudson talks to China’s most provocative exile about his new exhibition, the triple standards of the West, the crisis of ...
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Ai Weiwei Denied Entry to Switzerland
The Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei was denied entry to Switzerland and is among thousands affected by Portugal's visa ...
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Ai Weiwei's largest-ever Lego artwork revealed at London’s Design Museum
Ai Weiwei first deployed Lego bricks as an art medium in 2014 ... representing the door to the underground dugout in Xinjiang province where Ai and his father, the acclaimed poet Ai Qing, lived in ...
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Who Is Ai Weiwei?
He also writes and works as an art curator. Weiwei was born in Beijing in 1957. His father was a famous Chinese poet Ai Qing, one of the brightest voices of his generation. Qing studied in Paris ...