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Chinese Artist Ai Wei-wei Breaks Social Media Silence, Joins Google+ | Penn Olson
Chinese artist Ai Wei-wei has broken his recent social media silence after his lengthy detention and interrogation, and joined Google+, the new social network from Google . In his first post on G+ this afternoon, at 1:44pm local time, Ai Wei-wei said simply, “Greetings. I’m here!” He was quickly greeted with over 3,400 people adding him to their circles, and over 100 comments on his first G+ missive. Less than an hour later, Mr Ai posted a self-portrait photo to prove its authenticity.Chinese Artist Ai Wei-wei Breaks Social Media Silence, Joins Google+ by Jul 25
Chinese artist Ai WeiWei is bringing 1,001 of his compatriots to Germany to take part in the prestigious Documenta art show. The live exhibits, who will form an installation called "Fairytale," will wander around Kassel -- but are not allowed to leave the city. For reasons of data protection and privacy, your IP address will only be stored if you are a registered user of Facebook and you are currently logged in to the service. For more detailed information, please click on the "i" symbol. It's hard to make a splash in the art world these days.
Why WeiWei? Chinese Artist Lets a Thousand Compatriots Loose on Kassel - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
Chinese Artist Lets a Thousand Compatriots Loose on Kassel by May 26
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This summer, as a part of Documenta 12 , June 16-Sept. 23, 2007, the Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei is mounting an incredible installation cum performance work -- he’s bringing 1,001 Chinese citizens to Kassel, the central German town where the prestigious international art show is mounted every five years. Dubbed Fairytale -- the artist notes that Kassel was home to the Brothers Grimm from 1798 to 1830 -- the work is designed to allow the Chinese participants "to confront each other with their ordinary lives" while attending "one of the most important contemporary art events." Volunteers were selected by Ai Weiwei with an open call on his blog, and are being brought to Kassel in groups of 200 for one week each, with their airfare and lodging paid for. While international travel is typically available to upper-class Chinese, Ai Weiwei’s group includes farmers, teachers, students, artists and engineers.
This summer, as a part of Documenta 12, June 16-Sept. 23, 2007, the Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei is mounting an incredible installation cum performance work -- he’s bringing 1,001 Chinese citizens to Kassel, the central German town where the prestigious international art show is mounted every five years. by May 26
Amnesty Blogs: Countdown for China : Partial List of child victims (5212) during the 2008 Earthquake
Partial List of child victims (5212) during the 2008 Earthquake by May 23
By Zhou Ping Human rights groups and artist alliances gathered to show support for detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in Mong Kok on Sunday, warning Hong Kong people against travel to the mainland, where 56 people have been arrested or placed under house arrests. Organizers from 6 different groups set up huge billboard mapping missing citizens in 9 provinces and 3 municipalities since February 2011, when protesters in Middle East and North Africa overthrew their governments and inspired a so-called jasmine revolution to take place in China. Some lit fire to a map made of wormwood – a plant that shares its name Ai in Chinese with the detained artist – while others painted the characters for “Weiwei” on their foreheads.
Hong Kong Artists Speak For Ai Weiwei « Covering China
What do Muslims do online? Plot suicide bombings and complain about women who demand the right to vote? Mohamed El-Fatatry knew better. An Egyptian national who grew up in the United Arab Emirates and moved to Finland to study technology, Mohamed knew that most young Muslims were like anyone else in the Western world. To demonstrate, at the age of twenty-one he created Muxlim, which became the largest Muslim lifestyle network in the world. Mohamed 2.0: Disruption Manifesto is the story of Mohamed El-Fatatry, what happened in the private corridors of Muxlim, Inc. and what he plans for the future.
London artists rally around detained Weiwei by AlJazeeraEng | Muslim Community | Muxlim
The work of Ai Weiwei has become a hot commodity ever since the artist was imprisoned by Chinese officials in early April. While China's government hasn't given an official reason for Ai's detainment, many believe that the artist is being held as retaliation against his activism in the realms of human rights and free speech. On Friday, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego announced that it has purchased two pieces from Ai's series titled "Marble Chair." The museum said that the artist carved the yoke-back chairs out of single blocks of marble. Empty chairs are a recurring motif in Ai's work, and have taken on added resonance since his disappearance. The museum said it will hold a silent protest in support of Ai on Thursday at its downtown location .
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego acquires work by Ai Weiwei, plans 24-hour protest | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times
How to Look at Ai Weiwei's Art: Lisson Gallery's Curator on the Dissident Artist's New London Survey > "Untitled" and "Divina Proportione," 2010.
How to Look at Ai Weiwei's Art: Lisson Gallery's Curator on the Dissident Artist's New London Survey by May 13
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is a very brave man. Long before April 3, when he was taken into police custody by the Chinese authorities in Beijing as he attempted to board a flight for Hong Kong, he knew that his vigorous support for human rights in China put him on a collision course with the government. He was badly beaten by the police in 2009, his blog was shut down that same year, and in 2010 his new studio in Shanghai was bulldozed by authorities. True, Ai may have imagined that his immense prestige in the international art world—he is regarded as the Chinese answer to Joseph Beuys, a post-Duchampian shaman with an Asian spin—would have provided him some protection. And for a time it did.
Ai Weiwei: Daring Chinese Artist | The New Republic
Ai Wei Wei « Demusitecture
Recently came across this artist after a read of the interview Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Ai Wei Wei in the book Ai Wei Wei published by Phaidon, 2009. He’s a contemporary Chinese artist who has successfully established an artistic career both in America and China. And he’s also the one who provided Herzog and De Meuron with the inspiration for the bird nest Beijing Olympic stadium.
Demusitecture
thoughts of an architecture student. Ai Wei Wei
January 26, 2010 by May 10
In a video smuggled to a recent TED conference (which he was forbidden to attend) Chinese artist Ai Weiwei insisted, "Art is about social change." Apparently, the potential for change spearheaded by China 's most celebrated global art star troubles China's leaders. On April 3 authorities seized Mr. Ai, who disappeared into a news blackout illuminated only by vague allegations of "economic crimes." Skip to next paragraph
Ai Weiwei: Can an artist change society? - CSMonitor.com
Review: Ai Weiwei @ Haines Gallery « Art Beat Bay Area
Ai Weiwei's "Snake Bag" The Ai Weiwei show at Haines Gallery is important for many reasons, not all of which have to do with the specific work on view. Hailing from Beijing, Weiwei is at the forefront of the increasingly vibrant conversation the international art world is having about contemporary Asian art, especially that coming out of China. An activist and forceful critic of the Chinese government (he was beaten by the Chinese police last year and suffered life-threatening head injuries because of it), Weiwei’s art gives outsiders intimate insight into Chinese culture and current issues through the universal language of objects and concepts. His work also resonates within Western art history. Obvious influences and references can be made to Marcel Duchamp, Félix González-Torres, and Andy Warhol, and even contemporaries, such as Jeff Koons.Ai Weiwei's "Snake Bag" inside by May 1
The 2011 TIME 100 Poll Results - The 2011 TIME 100 Poll - TIME
See how your picks for the most influential people in the world rated among TIME readers. Though official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed (with Rain as the 2011 readers' choice), users can continue to vote for their favorites until the final list, selected by our editors, is revealed on Thursday, April 21stThe 2011 TIME 100 Poll Results - Ai WeiWei 193 by May 13
Ai Weiwei’s New Blog | China Digital Times (CDT)
It is just over a year since the Sichuan earthquake in southwestern China . The government has made it clear over and over since then that the crumpled schools and dead and injured students have nothing to do with shoddy construction. State agencies and the media, representing the authority and wisdom of the country, are trying to convince people that the earthquake was so strong that it was inevitable the schools would collapse and pupils die.# Posted by Jenny Leung
# June 1, 2009 1:48 PM by May 1
Pour les articles homonymes, voir Ai . Ai Weiwei ( chinois : 艾未未), né le 28 août 1957 à Pékin , est un des artistes majeurs de la scène artistique indépendante chinoise . Il est le fils du poète et intellectuel Ai Qing (1910-1996), et demi frère du peintre Ai Xuan .
Ai Weiwei - Wikipédia
Ai Weiwei (chinois : 艾未未), né le 28 août 1957 à Pékin, est un des artistes majeurs de la scène artistique indépendante chinoise. Il est également architecte. Il a été conseiller artistique pour le cabinet d'architecture suisse Herzog & de Meuron lors de la réalisation du Stade national de Pékin construit pour les Jeux olympiques d'été de 2008[1]. by May 1