This memoir gives volume to his continuing artistic mission, to live with the contradiction of the power of the celebrity artist versus the pain of the exiled dissident – the two poles along which his art career has necessarily taken shape.
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How we see the country reveals much about ourselves. Adamson the Australian diplomat inevitably frames China through a Western lens that still assumes the primacy of a liberal democratic order. Ai Weiwei has no illusions about the West or democracy,
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The dissident Chinese artist says Julian Assange "represents the very core value of why we are fighting, the freedom of the press" and he should be a "free man".
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Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei held a silent protest on Monday outside a London court to demand the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces extradition to the United States.
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