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Slideshow: A Visit with Ai Weiwei

Colorful Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei will be traveling across Europe this autumn to participate in various contemporary art exhibitions. French journalist Jordan Pouille went to his house on the outskirts of Beijing for a visit and took the photographs below. To read more about Ai Weiwei, please see CDT’s blogger profile.

Read about the exhibit, Double Happiness, that Ai is co-organizing in Brussels in October. Watch a video of Ai inspecting the exhibition space for Double Happiness:

Ai will also be exhibiting a video installation at MOCA in Los Angeles this fall. Read more from the LA Times.

• Posted by Sophie Beach
• September 10, 2009 12:09 PM
• Category: Culture
• Tags: Ai Weiwei, contemporary art, photos

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