# Ai Weiwei

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Listening with Richard Vine, Art Critic

Internationally recognized art critic Richard Vine, PhD is the former managing editor of Art in America who has taught throughout the world and has produced more than three hundred art articles. His books Range from the career survey of "Odd Nerdrum: Paintings, Sketches, and Drawings" and "New Chin…

Culture Gabfest - Slate, The Culture Gabfest: Scary Mascot Edition

Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens discuss the rise and fall of journalist Jonah Lehrer. Next the gang is joined by Slate's own Seth Stevenson to talk Olympic mascots. And they round out the show with the new documentary about the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. …

Downstream: China, AI and the West’s Free Speech Crackdown w/ Ai Weiwei

Over the past three years, the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has become a flash point for freedom of speech in the West. Expressing solidarity with Palestinians has given Western governments an excuse to crack down on dissenters. There has been intimidation and job insecurity at one en…

China, AI and the West's Free Speech Crackdown

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Over the past three years, the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has become a flash point for freedom of speech in the West. Expressing solidarity with Palestinians has given Western governments an excuse to crack down on dissenters. There has been intimidation and job insecurity at one en…

Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art

In 2008, an earthquake in China’s Sichuan province killed almost 90,000 people. Many were crushed when school buildings collapsed, exposing their poor construction quality. To counter perceived government suppression of information, the artist Ai Weiwei made an artwork from 90 tonnes of steel bars …

Why Loneliness Is Rising | Concerns Over Research-Grade Peptides

Matthew Perry's assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, will be the fifth and final person sentenced for playing a role in the actor's 2023 ketamine death. Carter Evans reports. An infrared camera on Brian and Lynette Hooker's sailboat may contain key evidence in the Michigan woman's disappearance in the Baham…

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei on political censorship in the West

In 2008, artist and activist Ai Weiwei clashed with the Chinese government over its response to the deadly Sichuan earthquake. The government had censored information about the death toll, so Ai Weiwei launched a citizen’s investigation, knocking on doors and visiting villages to learn the names of…

Episode 11: Loosen Up Your Buttons - Art, Politics and Ai Weiwei

False imprisonment is a crime, and it’s happened to artists in the past like Egon Sheile and the present like Sherrill Roland. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was once held against his will in a detention center straight out of a psychological horror movie. Listen to the story of his life told in parallel…

354. How to Be Creative

There are thousands of books on the subject, but what do we actually know about creativity? In this new series, we talk to the researchers who study it as well as artists, inventors, and pathbreakers who live it every day: Ai Weiwei, James Dyson, Elvis Costello, Jennifer Egan, Rosanne Cash, Wynton …