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...Effigies of food made from inedible materials are also a recurring theme in Chinese arts and crafts, from the clay peanuts scattered for amusement on a scholar’s tea table to Ai Weiwei’s porcelain sunflower...
..., Anselm Kiefer, Anthony Caro, Maya Lin and Eduardo Chillida....
...dissident artist Ai Weiwei, had his sentence for fraud cut in April to 10 years from 12, following an appeal....
...Twitter: @HornbyLucy Additional reporting by Luna Lin in Beijing...
...Additional reporting by Luna Lin and Wan Li...
...Pu Zhiqiang, whose clients have included artist Ai Weiwei, was detained on Tuesday on suspicion of “causing a disturbance”, according to a notice issued by the Beijing police....
...Perhaps inspired by Ai Weiwei’s ceramic sunflower seeds, which engulfed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2010, or Antony Gormley’s “Field” series featuring thousands of tiny clay figures, the poppies, conceived...
...Directly after playing the dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at Hampstead in Howard Brenton’s play about Ai’s arrest, he now (albeit briefly) finds himself in exactly the same situation as Zhang Lin, a...
...references. haw‑lin.com. ignant.com. stamen.com...
...In the 1980s, Lin and her husband, the video artist Wang Gongxin, decamped to New York, joining an artistic diaspora that included future celebrities Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing and the composer Tan Dun....
...This has become a recurrent theme of the past two years, with people protesting the detention of Ai Weiwei, the activist artist, and others....
...Portraiture has not been a conscious focus of Sigg’s collecting – although Ai Weiwei’s hyper-real 2004 portrait of Sigg, “Newspaper Reader”, is one of a number of portraits given to him by artist friends...
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