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Ai Weiwei Knocks Down the Building Blocks of Empire

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Ai Weiwei Knocks Down the Building Blocks of Empire

His toy-brick masterpieces are tributes to anyone terrorized and brutalized by the world’s great powers and their proxies.

via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/961351/ai-weiwei-knocks-down-the-building-blocks-of-empire/

His toy-brick masterpieces are tributes to anyone terrorized and brutalized by the world’s great powers and their proxies.

https://hyperallergic.com/961351/ai-weiwei-knocks-down-the-building-blocks-of-empire/

Ai Wei Wei on Prism

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Ai Wei Wei on Prism

Ai Wei Wei, the renowned Chinese dissident who has been relentlessly persecuted by his own government, has written an op-ed for the Guardian comparing Chinese totalitarian surveillance with Prism a…

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/06/11/ai-wei-wei-on-prism.html

This abuse of state power goes totally against my understanding of what it means to be a civilised society, and it will be shocking for me if American citizens allow this to continue. The US has a great tradition of individualism and privacy and has long been a centre for free thinking and creativity as a result

A triumph in Paris for Ai Weiwei

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Link: La Lettre de la Photographie

The Ai Weiwei exhibition Entrelacs at the Jeu de Paume contemporary art museum in Paris is the first of its kind in France. Press coverage of this multi-talented artist tends to emphasize his work’s subversive aspects and his frequent run-ins with the police and government