It's been months since Ai Weiwei was taken into custody by Chinese authorities and the art world is still reeling from it. His arrest, writes Christian Viveros-Faune of the Village Voice, has become the "first artistic touchstone of the 21st century...A Guernica-like event for the age of global ideological agnosticism." Ai is a public intellectual in a world with strikingly few of them. This article not only retells the story of Ai Weiwei, but also sets him, his art, and his controversial political blog in context of the present day--how his life's work relates to Arab Spring, internet unrest in China, and the state of the art world.
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