Art a GoGo Podcast #58 – Where is Ai Weiwei?

Show Notes:
- Click here to Listen to the MP3 of podcast #58
(30.44 minutes)

Art News

Liu Bolin
Chinese Artist Attempts To Blend In … Literally

Ai Weiwei Controversy – Abducted by Chinese Government

- Ai Weiwei bio (Wikipedia)
- Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
- Chinese artist Ai Weiwei held for ‘economic crimes’
- Art World denounces Ai Weiwei’s disappearance
- Students at Harvard Demonstrate Support for Detained Artist Ai Weiwei
- Free Chinese Artist, says bold sign at UK Gallery
- Museums Press for the Release of Ai Weiwei
- Chinese Baffled by Support for Imprisoned Activist Ai Weiwei
- Why Ai Weiwei Matters
- Call for the release of Ai Weiwei [petition from change.org]

Book Review

- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, 2008

Exhibitions

Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
April 5 – July 4, 2011
-> Go to the CF ‘Connections’ link on left side of website

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
May 4 – July 31, 2011

Shirin Neshat: Passage
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
June 4, 2011 – January 8, 2012

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