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Short Fuse Film Review: Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei — The Anti-Mao

August 11, 2012
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Dissident artist Ai Weiwei speaks for an alternate China, another possibility for it. In a sense, he is the anti-Mao. Alison Klayman’s “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” is an essential introduction to his work to date.

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Visual Arts Review: A Global Chain Letter

August 2, 2011
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Chain Letter is an ambitious maelstrom of eclectic works, but a caution to visitors: Go with an insider, a participating artist, or someone who’s close to the show.

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Book Review: ‘Chuck Close: Life’ ignores the Big Questions

June 15, 2010
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The narrative turns out to have the blandly cheerful tone and slightly stilted prose of an official biography: the sort of thing with the CEO’s picture on the cover, given out at stockholders meetings. Chuck Close: Life, by Christopher Finch. Prestel, 352 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Peter Walsh In these media-saturated, image-obsessed times, every public…

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