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The latest news from the studio of Ai Weiwei is that the dissident artist will soon be back behind bars — creating an installation. The site: Alcatraz. Although details of the planned works have not been released, they will take the form of sculpture, multimedia and sound inside the infamous San Francisco prison. >> Read more

The latest news from the studio of Ai Weiwei is that the dissident artist will soon be back behind bars — creating an installation. The site: Alcatraz. Although details of the planned works have not been released, they will take the form of sculpture, multimedia and sound inside the infamous San Francisco prison. >> Read more

Jean Nouvel designs the New NAMOC, China Pavilion in Venice to be cleared of oil barrels, and more. >> Read more

Blindspot Gallery is proud to present “New Framework: Chinese Avant-garde Photography 1980s-90s” in mid-May, a group show featuring the photographic works of Ai Wei Wei, Gu Zheng, Han Lei, Hong Lei, Jiang Zhi…… >> Read more

Perhaps the most misunderstood work at dOCUMENTA (13) was Yan Lei’s “Limited Art Project,” the reaction founded on preconceptions and prejudices about Chinese art – particularly painting – lazily assuming it merely riffs on Western clichés, that it is derivative and repetitive. >> Read more

Manifesta in St. Petersburg; Wang Chunchen in Venice; Iberia Center renamed Hive Center; Launch of ArtShare; MAP Office wins Sovereign Art Prize >> Read more

Randian Editor Iona Whittaker in conversation with Ai Weiwei — Chinese artist, writer, filmmaker and commentator — at his Beijing studio. The year 2012 marked his release from house arrest and the film "Never Sorry".... >> Read more

A critical response to Ai Weiwei’s view that the exhibition “Art of Change,” at the Hayward Gallery, fails to address any of China’s most “pressing contemporary issues." Contemporary art in China is, Ai argues, “merely a product” that “avoids any meaningful engagement” and whose only purpose outside China is therefore “to charm viewers with its ambiguity”. >> Read more

Chris Moore interviews Larry Warsh, an art collector and longtime friend of Ai Weiwei, who, in May 2011, installed Ai’s “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads” at the Pulitzer Fountain in Manhattan, New York. Since then the "Circle" has begun a tour of the world, including the courtyard of Somerset House in London >> Read more

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