Ai Weiwei: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: Harvard Business Review - Ai Weiwei. Nov 04, 2026
Add new Web site: CBC Radio - Ai Weiwei on his family's multi-generational fight against authoritarianism. Sep 12, 2026
Add new Web site: Royal Academy of Arts - Ai Weiwei: a beginner's guide. Mar 17, 2026
Add new Web site: NPR - Encore: Artist Ai Weiwei on his father's exile and hopes for his own son. Dec 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Harvard Business Review - Ai Weiwei. May 09, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC News - Artist Ai Weiwei on the real cost of activism. Dec 31, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Ai Weiwei, rebel with a cause. Sep 06, 2024
Added cross-reference. Jul 27, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Ai Weiwei: ?An artist must be an activist? Jun 28, 2024
First paragraph modernization. May 06, 2024
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Ai Weiwei. Sep 19, 2023
Add new Web site: Art in Context - Ai Weiwei Β– Discover the Artworks of the Influential Chinese Artist. Jul 27, 2023
Add new Web site: Association for Asian Studies - Ai Weiwei: Artist Activist Best Practices for Teaching Modern Art in the History Classroom. Apr 21, 2023
Add new Web site: Art UK - Ai Weiwei: a voice of dissent. Feb 28, 2023
Add new Web site: Smarthistory - Ai Weiwei, Remembering and the politics of dissent. Jan 19, 2023
Added his Praemium Imperiale award. Sep 15, 2022
Add new Web site: BBC - The Interview - Ai Weiwei: Huawei, Hong Kong and being an artist in exile. Aug 15, 2022
Replaced photograph. Mar 10, 2022
Noted that he published 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir in 2021. Nov 02, 2021
Noted the release of Coronation (2020). Aug 27, 2020
Add new Web site: Artnet - Ai Weiwei. Jun 04, 2019
Noted that his studio in Beijing was demolished by Chinese authorities in 2018. Aug 07, 2018
Added his documentary Human Flow and his installation Good Fences Make Good Neighbors. Jan 10, 2018
Add new Web site: Guggenheim - Biography of Ai Weiwei. Nov 25, 2016
Add new Web site: Lisson Gallery - Biography of Ai Weiwei. Nov 25, 2016
Add new Web site: Golden Gate Parks Conservancy - Biography of Ai Weiwei. Jun 07, 2016
Add new Web site: Blenheim Art Foundation - Biography of Ai Weiwei. Jun 07, 2016
Add new Web site: The Art Story - Biography of Ai Weiwei. Jun 07, 2016
Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Ai Weiwei. May 29, 2016
Noted release of the documentary Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case (2013). May 16, 2014
Revised discussion of his move to the United States in 1981. Noted new developments in his tax-evasion case. Mentioned the documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) as well as a career retrospective. Oct 24, 2012
Photos of Ai Weiwei and his art added. Oct 24, 2012
He was levied with a tax bill in November 2011. Jan 25, 2012
He was released from detention in June 2011. Jun 22, 2011
Added the installation Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads. May 19, 2011
New article added. May 09, 2011
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