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The (Continuing) Story of Ai

From Tragedy to Farce

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Deconstructing Contemporary Chinese Art

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Abstract

This article critically examines discussions of the artist Ai Weiwei on social media.

Published in Broadsheet: Contemporary Visual Art + Culture 43(4) (2014), pp. 44–47. An earlier version of this article was posted at Randian-Online; http://www.randian-online.com/np_feature/thecontinuing-story-of-ai-from-tragedy-to-farce/.

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    http://hyperallergic.com/129989/ai-weiwei-posts-curatortranscripts-after-censorship-row/.

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    http://www.weibo.com/1043763533B5O3C3XVv?mod=%20weibotime.

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    http://www.art-ba-ba.com/main/main.art?threadId=%2079609&forumId=8.

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    Gladston (2011, pp. 178–181).

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Gladston, P. (2016). The (Continuing) Story of Ai. In: Deconstructing Contemporary Chinese Art. Chinese Contemporary Art Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_10

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