Blogs about: Ai Weiwei

art documentaries : Chimeras in the mix

paulmanfredi wrote 1 day ago: Another year another China art documentary, focusing on questions of identity, or, as Wang Guangyi a … more →

Tags: china art, Zhong Biao, chinese art, China, Art, Chinese contemporary art, Alison Klayman, Documentary Film, Robert Adanto

No Borders in Bristol

ms6282 wrote 3 days ago: While we were in Bristol recently we called into the Bristol Museum and Art gallery intending to tak … more →

Tags: Art, Bristol, bristol museum and art gallery, Imram Quershi, no borders, shahzia sikander, Shipa Gupta

Wei-for the forced disappeared people

auravoicesforhumanrights wrote 3 days ago: Wei*-for the forced disappeared people    Lyrics and music by Ban,  Musical instrument: Lao B, produ … more →

Tags: forced disappearance, China

Ai Weiwei: Artist, political dissident...hairstylist?

Bronwyn Barnes wrote 3 days ago: [ew_image url="http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2013/05/15/AI-WEIWEI.jpg" credit="Ed Jones/Getty Images" … more →

Tags: Movies, Art, Hair and Makeup

北京簋街 汉族餐饮店与藏族摊贩群殴 Ai Weiwei films Beijing street brawl [Youtube/Al Jazeera]

ferylbob wrote 5 days ago: China is difficult to govern. Intercultural misunderstandings as such perhaps do not get as much lig … more →

Tags: Al Jazeera, Beijing Consensus, censorship, Chinese model, communications, Culture, Government Policy, Mapping Feelings, peaceful development

VIDEO: China's Ai Weiwei Films Ethnic Violence in Beijing

wtgcdfy wrote 5 days ago: The artist and prominent dissident captured a street brawl between Han and Tibetan vendors. Thanks f … more →

Tags: China, World, Video, London, Beijing, Brawl, caught-on-camera, chinese art, Han Chinese

Disaster and the State

denryblog wrote 5 days ago: Category; Law, Media, Politics © Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty A terrible industrial disaster in Banglade … more →

Tags: media, Politics, Law, International Aid, Bangladesh, Savar factory collapse, The State, Government

Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent Awarded to Ali Ferzat, Park Sang Hak and the Ladies in White

Hans Thoolen wrote 6 days ago: The New York based Human Rights Foundation today announced the recipients of the Václav Havel Prize … more →

Tags: Human Rights, Ali Ferzat, Awards, cuba, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Human Rights Foundation, Ladies in White, Manal Al-Sharif, North Korea

Ai Weiwei in Indy

nckawa wrote 6 days ago: Yesterday I visited The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s current exhibition of the work of Ai Weiw … more →

Tags: Art, Political Activism, #whoisaiweiwei

北京簋街 汉族餐饮店与藏族摊贩群殴 .

Buffalohair wrote 6 days ago: … more →

Tags: Asia, China, 北京簋街 汉族餐饮店与藏族摊贩群殴 .

400 Backpacks; 5,000 children1 comment

icelandpenny wrote 1 week ago: 12 May — Today, of all days, is the best possible day to show you Snake Ceiling. Any day would … more →

Tags: city, Travel, AGO, Arts, Chinese Earthquake, Installation Art, Sichuan earthquake, Snake Ceiling

A Mother's Tale, on the 5th Anniversary of Wenchuan Earthquake1 comment

Yaxue Cao wrote 1 week ago: On May 12, 2008, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake stuck Wenchuan area in Sichuan province. 80,000 died, i … more →

Tags: Life In China, Beichuan High School, Liu Yuting, Tan Zuoren, Tofu-dreg project, wenchuan earthquake

#aiww2 comments

fcoronin wrote 1 week ago: So scary I nearly walked out. I’d read a book, or rather, attempted to read it. Too frightenin … more →

Tags: theatre, Drama, dissident, China, communist regime, political prisoner, Torture, Repression, Freedom

WE Curate: New Framework: Chinese Avant-garde Photography 1980s-90s

Ren Wan wrote 1 week ago: After all the long history of Chinese civilisation was avant-garde. Looking forward to have our mind … more →

Tags: Art, Avant Garde, Blindspot Gallery, Chinese avant-garde, chinese photography, Hong Lei, QIU ZHIJIE, RongRong, Wong Chuk Hang

"But what have we paid to get so prosperous?" Ai Weiwei via SPIEGEL, May 2013.

jfreos wrote 1 week ago: ...I have gone through a difficult time, through a life or death situation really. I have been injur … more →

Tags: News

Ai Weiwei's bronze sculpture exhibit coming to Nathan Phillips Square

Kim Brown wrote 1 week ago: There will be a dozen new faces at Nathan Phillips Square in June now that city council has agreed t … more →

Tags: Posted Toronto, Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, Nathan Phillips Square

The Painted Puss: An Art Quiz

paintlater wrote 2 weeks ago: I’m totally a dog person but that’s not to say I dislike cats, I love them too but the p … more →

Tags: Art Quiz, Art, Dogs, Matisse, Picasso, art quiz, Jeff Koons, Cats, artists and their cats

Art V. Activism- Is Ai WeiWei Still an Artist?

FawnReview wrote 2 weeks ago: Ai Weiwei The Guardian’s chief art writer Jonathan Jones asked an interesting and prickly ques … more →

Tags: art people, ART WORKS, activism, Art, chinese art

'I Try To Resist Being Tamed'...Chinese Artist Zhao Zhao via SPIEGEL online...

jfreos wrote 2 weeks ago: In an interview, Chinese artist Zhao Zhao, who has a new exhibition in Berlin, discusses the state h … more →

Tags: News


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