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bubmagJune 3, 2021
(AP) Decisions in Hong Kong not to display a politically sensitive photograph in a museum exhibition and not broadcast the annual Academy Awards for the first time in decades have prompted concerns that Beijing’s crackdown on dissent in the city is extending to arts and entertainment.Hong Kong authorities have taken…
bubmagMarch 30, 2021
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Thursday said that challenging the authorities is one of the main purposes of art, as he rejected a pro-Beijing lawmaker's claim that his work subverts the state. Eunice Yung, from the New People's Party, had singled out Ai on Wednesday, as she raised concerns that…
bubmagMarch 18, 2021
Last week masked men set fire to a Banksy screenprint called Morons (White) at a secret location in Brooklyn, livestreaming the destruction via the Twitter account @BurntBanksy. The men worked for a company called Injective Protocol, which bought the print for $95,000 in order to destroy it and replace it…
bubmagMarch 9, 2021
(AP) Two new films about Wuhan were released Friday, the eve of the anniversary of the start of a 76-day lockdown in the central Chinese city where the coronavirus was first detected. How they were released and who their audiences are stand in stark contrast. The first, a state-backed film praising…
bubmagJanuary 22, 2021
(AP) “Papa!” screams a hospital worker, covered from head to toe in a Hazmat suit and PPE, in the opening moments of the documentary “76 Days.”This is in the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan, back in January and February when the city of 11 million went into a…
bubmagDecember 2, 2020
The Trump administration has floated the idea of sanctioning Chinese officials and members of the Communist party of China. Before we ask whether this is a good idea, let’s ask how Sino-US relations got to this stage.The US cold war with the Soviet Union was over ideology, but today’s standoff…
bubmagAugust 6, 2020
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFPWhat is it about Ai Weiwei that makes him so dangerous to China’s ruling Communist Party? For one, the prolific Beijing-born artist is a symbol of the struggle for human rights in the country. Arrested, imprisoned, tortured and constantly harassed…
bubmagJuly 29, 2020
New Delhi | Published: June 14, 2020 12:25:28 pm Ai Weiwei left China in 2015 and now lives in Cambridge, UK. (Photo: Ai Weiwei Studio)Ai Weiwei: ‘This is a battle about the future’ In a post on Instagram, accompanying a picture of a mask from the Ai Weiwei MASK project,…
bubmagJune 14, 2020