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...Ai Weiwei, Tony Cragg and Jaume Plensa have all sold glass pieces for north of $1m, having enlisted Berengo Studio in Murano to oversee fabrication....
...It features such international big hitters as Ai Weiwei, Sachiko Kazama, Zhou Tao and Pierre Huyghe alongside Taiwanese stars including Chen Yin-Ju and Eleng Luluan....
...The latest major acquisition by Washington DC’s Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum is Ai Weiwei’s monumental “Trace” (2017), a 1,200-plus ft installation comprising 176 portraits of activists, political prisoners...
...The 2016 Sydney Biennale was inspired by the politics of people on the move and Kataoka picks up where that show left off by commissioning Ai Weiwei....
...Chen Jinxue, a rights lawyer based in Guangdong, said he believed Mr Li was innocent....
...The same generation as Ai Weiwei and Xu Bing, Chen left China like them in the 1980s, but settled not in the United States but in Paris, where he lived until his death in 2000 from cancer....
...“The Shanghai government has changed its strategies and practices since Expo 2012,” explains Chen Anda, deputy director of the state-owned Shanghai West Bund Development Group....
...Chen, for one, is unconcerned....
...Popular actress Yao Chen boasts more than 30m followers. She normally posts innocuous tweets on daily life as a star....
...US. 63.Ai Weiwei, artist, writer and activist. China. 64.Shinya Yamanaka, stem cell researcher. Japan. 65.Slavoj Žižek, philosopher. Slovenia....
...Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has been warned he may face charges of pornography and bigamy even as police told him they were ending a year-long period of virtual house arrest at his home in Beijing...
...Weiwei Chen, chief financial officer of Yum’s China business, said in December that Beijing’s plan to double per capita income in China was expected to bring 600m more people into the consumer class, increasing...
...Weiwei Chen, chief financial officer of Yum’s China business, said that the government’s plan to double per capita income in China was expected to bring 600m people into the consumer class, ramping up potential...
...Mr Chen’s brother, Chen Guangfu, and nephew, Chen Kegui, were also detained after his escape....
...Mr Cohen said that the idea was to achieve the sort of status for Mr Chen that Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist, now faces....
...A poignant work is Chen Zhen’s “Bibliothèque” (1992), a glass-fronted cabinet containing the ashes of Chinese newspapers. Works by the French artist Bernard Aubertin use spent matches....
...The Beijing Design Festival, inaugurated last October under the direction of Aric Chen, an ex-New Yorker, was repeated this year with support from the ministries of Education and Culture....
...Earlier this year, Ai Weiwei, the artist and government critic, was detained for 81 days without explanation....
...Among the most recent is “A lighthouse was winking in the distance” (2010), a staged photograph by Chen Wei in which a blinding light erases the artist’s face....
...They are Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist; Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned writer and human rights activist; Ni Yulan, a lawyer representing land eviction cases; and Chen Guangcheng, a blind human rights activist...
...With thanks to translators Belinda Chen and Alicia Liu One man, three shows ‘Zhang Huan: Altered States’ is at the Asia Society, New York, until January 20....
...Like Cohen, she thinks Ai WeiWei’s work is world-class. And she, too, sees a sustainable body of work in Xu Bing’s art, including his playful anglicisation of Chinese characters....
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