by Sarah K. Kozlowski | 15 April 2011 | Asia, Contemporary, Current Events
As the Chinese government’s detention of artist Ai Weiwei approaches the two-week mark, ArtInfo.com brings together the latest developments.
Ai was arrested in Beijing on April 3, an event his studio assistants recorded on Twitter (translation here). Evan Osnos reported on the day’s events in a New Yorker dispatch. Police claim that Ai is being investigated for “economic crimes.”
Artists and arts professionals around the world are circulating a petition for his release.
Read more about Ai Weiwei’s work in Evan Osnos’s excellent New Yorker profile. And watch a short documentary about Ai that Frontline/World aired on PBS.
