What’s so special about Ai WeiWei

Xiao Faria da Cunha
10 min readAug 9, 2018
Ai Wei Wei’s installation, photo courtesy via Smithsonian Magazine

Friday, August 3, 2018 became a day the art world would forever remember as contemporary artist Ai WeiWei’s studio in China was demolished by authorities in the afternoon. The artist posted on instagram:

Today, they started to demolish my studio ‘zuo you’ in Beijing with no precaution… Farewell. (as quoted by Artnet News)

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Xiao Faria da Cunha

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