On Sunday afternoon, a Chinese man was handing out a flyer, allegedly “for an artist,” near Wall Street and at Zuccotti Park. It was purportedly written by “the hottest star from China” seeking a “not asian” husband with a lengthy list of requirements, including but not limited to a masters from “Harvard” “Yale” or “Oxon,” a house and a car. Read more »
Chinese citizens are literally throwing folded money into Ai Weiwei’s courtyard. The dissident artist who has days to pay the police $2.4 million in “taxes,” has received $830,000 in donations so far. Now, a Communist-owned paper calls electronic transfers “an example of illegal fund raising.” Uh-oh. Read more »
Remember how the Chinese government attempted to fine dissident artist Ai Weiwei $1.85 million in alleged due “taxes and fines,” while refusing to return Ai’s confiscated company account books, lying that he admitted to tax evasion and never having officially arrested or charged him in the first place? They’ve just raised the bill a mill and a half. Read more »
Chinese dissident and world’s most powerful artist Ai Weiwei has directed this W Magazine spread at Rikers Island via Skype from his studio in Beijing, because he has a good sense of humor about being kidnapped and imprisoned by the government for 80 days. The “kidnapped” and “imprisoned” model wore Alexander Wang until this happened. Read more »
America’s financiers have been taking advantage of their market position and quietly making it rain all across the city according to the Times. Chinese banks and investors are heavily invested in real estate and companies have staked out commercial space in prominent locations, such as the Empire State Building and 1 World Trade Center. They’re even fixing the bridges. China is essentially our new landlord.
Time travel is not possible, say scientists from a country where time travel is banned from television.
London-based graffiti artist SHOK-1 says that he was invited to paint a giant mural in China, but after surveying his work, the government wants it “completely censored out” and presumably, buffed. The artist says the mural has a personal meaning to him, but is leaving his heart-noose-on-red theme up to interpretation. “As far as what they think it means or what the problem actually is – they won’t tell me,” he writes. “I think unless you’ve worked with the Chinese, it will probably be difficult to understand but things are… indirect.”
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei has accepted an honorary professorship from Berlin’s University of the Arts for the course of three years. Since his release, his passport was taken away and he can’t leave Beijing, so it’s possible he’ll give his lectures via Skype. Read more »
China’s recently released dissident artist Ai Weiwei is back and busy in his studio, according to his Swiss gallery rep. Allegedly, Ai is vigorously working on new projects, despite his gag order, mass surveillance and financial persecution and, perhaps, because of that last part. Read more »
Ai Weiwei’s missing studio architect Liu Zhenggang was released… into a hospital, after suffering a heart attack during an “interrogation.” No wonder those arrested in the Big Chill return with “health problems.”
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