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Anish Kapoor and friends perform Gangnam Style for Ai Weiwei - video

Source: Guardian Unlimited, Nov 22 2012, 8:55am CST

Anish Kapoor performs a mass Gangnam Style video in support of Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and dissident whose parody of Psy's viral video was banned in China. Among the 250 people taking part in the video are ...

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Venice Biennale needs Ai Weiwei – a man who makes art matter

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 21 2013, 9:28am CDT

Meanwhile, a new installation by Ai Weiwei invites a comparison with the work of Beuys, his German pavilion antecedent. It is another piece that uses the language of contemporary art to make a bold intervention in the political arena. From the 196 ...

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Ai Weiwei 'disappointed' in Pelosi

Source: The Politico  |   May 21 2013, 9:10am CDT

Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei tells Playboy magazine that he’s disillusioned with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), someone he once saw as an ally in his struggles against the Chinese government. “She used to be a human-rights defende ...

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Art review: Anish Kapoor, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Source: The Independent  |   May 20 2013, 10:02am CDT

Some of Anish Kapoor's ventures into gigantism have been questionable successes. Think of the gruesomely entitled ArcelorMittal Orbit , that roller coaster of a blot on the landscape of East London that eventually transmogrified, after a ...

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PSY and Korean Soft Power

Source: Trends in Japan  |   May 20 2013, 3:48am CDT

Last time I checked PSY’s Gentleman MV had almost 330 million views on youtube and Gangnam style had more than 1.6 billion. That’s a lot of exposure for a song that is sung in Korean, about a neighborhood in Seoul by an artist that pretty much no-one out ...

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VIDEO: Ai Weiwei makes art from milk tins

Source: BBC News  |   May 19 2013, 9:56pm CDT

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Exhibition explores history of possible encounters in art

Source: Hurriet Daily News  |   May 19 2013, 4:49pm CDT

Gathering together the strands of four famous Chinese artists, including the world-famous Ai Weiwei, Salt’s new exhibition “A History of Possible Encounters” is an attempt to think of the concrete or even tenuous l ...

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Anish Kapoor Interviewed in The Guardian

Source: Art Observed  |   May 17 2013, 9:18pm CDT

Anish Kapoor spoke with The Guardian this week in the run-up to his new show of work, Kapoor in Berlin at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in the German capital, speaking about the countries’ support of the arts, and its stark contrast to Great Br ...

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Ai Weiwei Shoots Chinese Street Brawl, Video Goes Viral

Source: Art Observed  |   May 17 2013, 5:27pm CDT

Artist Ai Weiwei was on hand last week to film and upload a large fight on Beijng’s Ghost Street between ethnic Tibetan and ethnic Han Chinese street vendors. The video quickly went viral, gaining the attention of viewers world ...

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Peeping Tom Artist Scandalizes Neighbors, Keith Haring App Goes Live, and More

Source: ArtInfo  |   May 17 2013, 9:20am CDT

– Neighbors Angry Over Peeping Tom Artist's Photographs : Neighbors of the Tribeca-based photographer Arne Svenson who live in the glass-walled Zinc Building across the street from his studio are predictably upset to see themselves, howeve ...

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Dissident Artist Draws Inspiration from Milk Fears

Source: Voice of America  |   May 17 2013, 9:11am CDT

BEIJING — Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has taken inspiration from fears in China about milk safety for his latest work of art, a huge map of China made out of milk powder tins appearing at an exhibition in Hong Kong which ope ...

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