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In this week’s New Yorker<\/a>, Evan Osnos profiles artist and activist Ai Weiwei (by subscription only). On his blog, Osnos posts a video by Alison Klayman<\/a>, who is producing a documentary about Ai to be released next year:
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Osnos also provides a useful run-down of readings<\/a> by or about Ai and his famous family. From that list:<\/p>\n

\n– Karen Smith, the curator and critic, has done invaluable work on Chinese art for years, including a long essay last year about Ai Weiwei in a book from Phaidon Press: \u201cAi Weiwei\u201d (2009)<\/a>. This valuable book also includes an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist and a detailed review by Bernard Fibicher. Smith also has a new edition out of \u201cNine Lives<\/a>,\u201d her group portrait of the birth of the Chinese avant-garde.
\n– Philip Tinari<\/a> is the editor of Leap<\/em> magazine, a new bilingual journal of contemporary Chinese art. (3030 Press has an interview<\/a> with Tinari about it.) He has written some of the best critical analysis of Ai Weiwei\u2019s work over the years, including \u201cA True Kind of Living<\/a>,\u201d which appeared in ArtForum<\/em>.
\n– For more of Ai\u2019s own writing, keep an eye out for a forthcoming collection of his blog, interviews, and other important pieces, translated and edited by Lee Ambrozy<\/a>, the Beijing-based art watcher who has already produced very valuable translations of Ai\u2019s writing. She writes at Sinopop<\/a>, among other places.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week’s New Yorker, Evan Osnos profiles artist and activist Ai Weiwei (by subscription only). On his blog, Osnos posts a video by Alison Klayman, who is producing a documentary about Ai to be released next year: Osnos also provides a useful run-down of readings by or about Ai and his famous family. 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