China has tried to obliterate the existence of Ai Weiwei from the internet: search for his name there, and you’ll find nothing. His blog has been shut down, his passport was confiscated, and his communication with the outside world from his studio near Beijing is monitored.
In a profile of the artist, written after a visit to China this summer, the NS‘s Features Editor Sophie Elmhirst wrote:
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