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Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei (born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist. [1]

174 relations: Adam Michnik, Adam Zagajewski, Ah Cheng, Ai (surname), Ai Qing, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alcatraz Island, Allen Ginsberg, Alpaca, Ambassador of Conscience Award, Amnesty International, Andy Warhol, Anti-Rightist Campaign, Apollo (magazine), Art in America, Art Students League of New York, ArtReview, Associated Press, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Aung San Suu Kyi, Avant-garde, BBC, Bei Ling, Beijing Capital International Airport, Beijing East Village, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing Independent Film Festival, Beijing National Stadium, Belvedere, Vienna, Berlin, Berlin University of the Arts, Bianca Jagger, Blackjack, Brooklyn Museum, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Caochangdi, CBC News, Chengdu, China University of Political Science and Law, Chinese mitten crab, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Chris Dercon, Christopher Doyle, Contemporary art, Cornell University, Creative Time, Cultural Revolution, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Diabetes mellitus, Double entendre, ..., East Village, Manhattan, Elfriede Jelinek, Evan Osnos, Excessivism, Feng Boyi, Feng Zhenghu, Found object, Fuck Off (art exhibition), Gangnam Style, Gao Yu (journalist), Ghent University, Global Times, Government of China, Grass Mud Horse, Groninger Museum, Hannah Beech, Heilongjiang, Herta Müller, Herzog & de Meuron, Hillary Clinton, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hossein Rajabian, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, House arrest, Huang Rui, Human Rights Foundation, Human Rights Watch, Hypertension, Ilham Tohti, International Architecture Awards, International Council of Museums, Intracerebral hemorrhage, Israel Museum, Ivan Klíma, Jack Dorsey, Jasper Johns, Jáchym Topol, Jiang (surname), Jiří Gruša, Jingdezhen, Jinhua Architecture Park, Joan Baez, Jonathan Glancey, Kensington Gardens, Knox Martin, Kofi Annan, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lego, Li Shuang (artist), List of minor planets: 83001–84000, Liu Ping (activist), Liu Xiaobo, Manal al-Sharif, Mao Zedong, Marcel Duchamp, Mehdi Rajabian, Michael Wines, Ming Pao, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, National Park Service, Nelson Mandela, New Statesman, New York (magazine), Nobel Peace Prize, Operation Aurora, Ordos City, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Park Avenue Armory, Parsons School of Design, Phaidon Press, Philadelphia, Philip Tinari, Political prisoner, Power Station of Art, Pratt Institute, PRISM (surveillance program), Psy, Pu Zhiqiang, Public Delivery, Qu Leilei, Radio Free Asia, Reporters Without Borders, Richard Pousette-Dart, River crab (Internet slang), Royal Institute of British Architects, Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, San Francisco Bay, Shihezi, Sichuan schools corruption scandal, Sina Weibo, Smithsonian Institution, Sockpuppet (Internet), Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Stefen Chow, Steven Spielberg, Sunflower Seeds (artwork), Tan Zuoren, Tate Modern, TED (conference), Tessellation, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, Time (magazine), Tofu-dreg project, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, University of California, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, Upstate New York, Václav Havel, Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent, Wallpaper, Wallpaper (magazine), WeiweiCam, Wen Jiabao, Wen Wei Po, Yang Jia, Zhang Yimou, 2008 Sichuan earthquake, 2008 Summer Olympics, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests, 2012 Sundance Film Festival, 50 Cent Party. Expand index (124 more) »

Adam Michnik

Adam Michnik (born 17 October 1946) is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.

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Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski (born 21 June 1945 in Lwów) is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist.

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Ah Cheng

Zhong Acheng (born 1949), often known by his pseudonym Ah Cheng, is a Chinese author and screenwriter.

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Ai (surname)

Ai is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character.

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Ai Qing

Aì Qīng (born Jiǎng Zhènghán and styled Jiǎng Hǎichéng; March 27, 1910 – May 5, 1996), is regarded as one of the finest modern Chinese poets.

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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (in Chinese 艾未未:道歉你妹; official title in Taiwan 艾未未:草泥馬) is a 2012 documentary film about Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, directed by American filmmaker Alison Klayman.

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Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island is located in San Francisco Bay, offshore from San Francisco, California, United States.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher, writer, and activist.

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Alpaca

The Alpaca (Vicugna pacos) is a species of South American camelid, similar to, and often confused with the llama.

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Ambassador of Conscience Award

The Ambassador of Conscience Award is Amnesty International's most prestigious human rights award.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

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Anti-Rightist Campaign

The Anti-Rightist Campaign in the People's Republic of China, which lasted from roughly 1957 to 1959, was a campaign to purge alleged "rightists" within the Communist Party of China (CPC) and abroad.

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Apollo (magazine)

Apollo is an English-language monthly magazine covering visual arts of all periods, from antiquity to the present day.

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Art in America

Art in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world in the United States, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules.

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Art Students League of New York

The Art Students League of New York is an art school located on West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York.

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ArtReview

ArtReview is an international contemporary art magazine based in London, founded in 1948.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City is a resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known for its casinos, boardwalk, and beaches.

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Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, and author, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1991).

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bei Ling

Bei Ling (貝嶺) (born December 28, 1959 in Beijing) is a Chinese poet, and journal editor.

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Beijing Capital International Airport

Beijing Capital International Airport is the main international airport serving Beijing.

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Beijing East Village

The Beijing East Village was an avant-garde artistic community of the early 1990s located in the eastern part of Beijing,Kong Bu.

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Beijing Film Academy

Beijing Film Academy (BFA) is a coeducational state-run higher education institution in Beijing, China.

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Beijing Independent Film Festival

The Beijing Independent Film Festival is an annual independent film festival in Beijing, China.

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Beijing National Stadium

Beijing National Stadium, officially the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, is a stadium in Beijing.

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Belvedere, Vienna

The Belvedere is a historic building complex in Vienna, Austria, consisting of two Baroque palaces (the Upper and Lower Belvedere), the Orangery, and the Palace Stables.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Berlin University of the Arts

The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe.

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Bianca Jagger

Bianca Jagger (born Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías; 2 May 1945) ICorrect, 9 March 2011.

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Blackjack

Blackjack, also known as twenty-one, is a comparing card game between usually several players and a dealer, where each player in turn competes against the dealer, but players do not play against each other.

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Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Caochangdi

Caochangdi is an urban village and renowned arts district located in the Chaoyang District of northeast Beijing at the intersection of the 5th Ring Road and Airport Expressway.

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CBC News

CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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Chengdu

Chengdu, formerly romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of China's Sichuan province.

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China University of Political Science and Law

China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL; simplified Chinese: 中国政法大学; traditional Chinese: 中國政法大學; pinyin: Zhōngguó Zhèngfǎ Dàxué abbr. 法大, Fǎ Dà) is a national public research university specialized in law, arts, history, philosophy, economics, management and foreign languages established in 1952 in Beijing, China.

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Chinese mitten crab

The Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis; Chinese: t 大閘蟹, s 大闸蟹, p dàzháxiè, "big sluice crab"), also known as the Shanghai hairy crab (上海毛蟹, p Shànghǎi máoxiè), is a medium-sized burrowing crab that is named for its furry claws, which resemble mittens.

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Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), also known as the People's PCC (人民政协) or just the PCC (政协), is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China.

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Chris Dercon

Chris Dercon (born 1958 in Lier, Belgium) is a Belgian art historian and curator.

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Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle, also known as Dù Kěfēng (Mandarin) or Dou Ho-Fung (Cantonese) (born 2 May 1952) is an Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer who often works on Chinese language films.

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Contemporary art

Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the late 20th century or in the 21st century.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Creative Time

Creative Time is a New York-based nonprofit arts organization.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976.

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De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum De Pont is a contemporary art museum in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.

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Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.

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Double entendre

A double entendre is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to be understood in two ways, having a double meaning.

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East Village, Manhattan

East Village is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist.

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Evan Osnos

Evan Lionel Richard Osnos (born December 24, 1976) is an American journalist and author.

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Excessivism

Excessivism is an art movement which was introduced in 2015 by American artist and curator Kaloust Guedel with an exhibition titled Excessivist Initiative.

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Feng Boyi

Feng Boyi (fl. c. 2000; Chinese name 馮博一) is an eminent independent art curator and critic in China.

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Feng Zhenghu

Feng Zhenghu (born 1 July 1954) is a Chinese economist and scholar based in Shanghai.

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Found object

Found object originates from the French objet trouvé, describing art created from undisguised, but often modified, objects or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function.

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Fuck Off (art exhibition)

"Fuck Off" (Chinese: 不合作方式) was a controversial art exhibition which ran alongside the Third Shanghai Biennale (2000), which itself was the city's first attempt at a truly international survey of contemporary art.

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Gangnam Style

"Gangnam Style" (강남스타일) is the 18th K-pop single by the South Korean musician Psy.

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Gao Yu (journalist)

Gao Yu (born 23 February 1944) is a Chinese journalist and dissident who has been repeatedly imprisoned.

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Ghent University

Ghent University (Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent) is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium.

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Global Times

The Global Times is a daily Chinese tabloid newspaper under the auspices of the People's Daily newspaper, focusing on international issues from China's perspective.

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Government of China

The central government of the People's Republic of China is divided among several state organs.

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Grass Mud Horse

The Grass Mud Horse or Cǎonímǎ (草泥马) is a Chinese Internet meme widely used as a form of symbolic defiance of the widespread Internet censorship in China.

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Groninger Museum

The Groninger Museum is an art museum in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands.

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Hannah Beech

Hannah Beech is a journalist for ''TIME'' Magazine.

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Heilongjiang

Heilongjiang (Wade-Giles: Heilungkiang) is a province of the People's Republic of China.

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Herta Müller

Herta Müller (born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Herzog & de Meuron

Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd.,"." Herzog & de Meuron.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States.

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Hossein Rajabian

Hossein Rajabian (حسین رجبیان; born 5 July 1984) is an Iranian Filmmaker, Writer and Photographer who was imprisoned in 2015 on charges related to his filmmaking.

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Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is the largest documentary festival in North America.

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House arrest

In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or, in modern times, electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to a residence.

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Huang Rui

Huang Rui (born 1952) is a Chinese artist known for his social and cultural criticism.

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Human Rights Foundation

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a non-profit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Hypertension

Hypertension (HTN or HT), also known as high blood pressure (HBP), is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated.

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Ilham Tohti

Ilham Tohti"Ilham Tohti" is the result of anglophone media erroneously omitting the UYY diacritics.

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International Architecture Awards

The International Architecture Awards are global awards for new architecture, landscape architecture, interiors and urban planning.

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International Council of Museums

Created in 1946, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) is a non-governmental organisation maintaining formal relations with UNESCO and having a consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, is a type of intracranial bleed that occurs within the brain tissue or ventricles.

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Israel Museum

The Israel Museum (מוזיאון ישראל, Muze'on Yisrael) was established in 1965 as Israel's national museum.

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Ivan Klíma

Ivan Klíma (born 14 September 1931 in Prague, as Ivan Kauders) is a Czech novelist and playwright.

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Jack Dorsey

Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who is co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company.

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Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art.

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Jáchym Topol

Jáchym Topol (born 4 August 1962) is a Czech writer.

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Jiang (surname)

Jiang can be a pinyin transliteration of one of several Chinese surnames.

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Jiří Gruša

Jiří Gruša (10 November 1938, in Pardubice – 28 October 2011, in Bad Oeynhausen) was a Czech poet, novelist, translator, diplomat and politician.

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Jingdezhen

Jingdezhen (or the Town of Jingde) is a prefecture-level city, previously a town, in northeastern Jiangxi province, China, with a total population of 1,554,000 (2007), bordering Anhui to the north.

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Jinhua Architecture Park

Jinhua Architecture Park (Chinese: t 公園, s 公园, p Jīnhuá Jiànzhù Yìshù Gōngyuán) is a park in Jinhua, a city in central Zhejiang province in eastern China.

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Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice.

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Jonathan Glancey

Jonathan Glancey, is an architectural critic and writer who was the architecture and design editor at The Guardian, a position he held from 1997 to February 2012.

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Kensington Gardens

Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are among the Royal Parks of London.

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Knox Martin

Knox Martin (born February 12, 1923) is an American painter, sculptor and muralist.

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Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006.

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Konzerthausorchester Berlin

The Konzerthausorchester Berlin is a symphony orchestra based in Berlin, Germany.

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Lego

Lego (stylized as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark.

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Li Shuang (artist)

Li Shuang (李爽, born 1957 in Beijing), is a contemporary Chinese artist.

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List of minor planets: 83001–84000

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Liu Ping (activist)

Liu Ping (born Dec 2, 1964) is a female grassroot civil rights activist in China.

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Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese writer, literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one-party rule in China.

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Manal al-Sharif

Manal al-Sharif (منال الشريف; born 25 April 1979) is a Saudi Arabian women's rights activist who helped start a women's right to drive campaign in 2011.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893September 9, 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

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Marcel Duchamp

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups.

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Mehdi Rajabian

Mehdi Rajabian (Persian:مهدی رجبیان) is born in October 1989 in Sari (a city in north of Iran) who is the composer, the musician and the founder of the website Barg music.

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Michael Wines

Stephen Michael Wines (born June 3, 1951) is an American journalist.

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Ming Pao

Ming Pao is a Chinese-language newspaper published by Ming Pao Group in Hong Kong.

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Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (or MCASD), in San Diego, California, US, is an art museum focused on the collection, preservation, exhibition, and interpretation of works of art from 1950 to the present.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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Operation Aurora

Operation Aurora was a series of cyber attacks conducted by advanced persistent threats such as the Elderwood Group based in Beijing, China, with ties to the People's Liberation Army.

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Ordos City

Ordos (Ordos qota) is one of the twelve major subdivisions of Inner Mongolia, China.

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Oslo School of Architecture and Design

The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo), AHO, is an autonomous institution within the Norwegian university system.

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Park Avenue Armory

The Park Avenue Armory Conservancy, generally known as Park Avenue Armory, is a nonprofit cultural institution within the historic Seventh Regiment Armory building located at 643 Park Avenue on New York City's Upper East Side.

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Parsons School of Design

Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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Phaidon Press

Phaidon is a global publisher of books on art, architecture, photography, design, performing arts, decorative arts, fashion, film, travel, and contemporary culture, as well as cookbooks and children’s books.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philip Tinari

Philip Tinari (born 1979, Philadelphia) is a notable writer, critic, art curator, and expert in Contemporary Chinese Art.

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Political prisoner

A political prisoner is someone imprisoned because they have opposed or criticized the government responsible for their imprisonment.

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Power Station of Art

The Power Station of Art is a contemporary art museum in Shanghai, China.

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Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private, nonsectarian, non-profit institution of higher learning located in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, with a satellite campus located at 14th Street in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York (Pratt MWP).

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PRISM (surveillance program)

PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies.

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Psy

Park Jae-sang (born December 31, 1977), known professionally as Psy, stylized PSY, is a South Korean singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer.

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Pu Zhiqiang

Pu Zhiqiang (born 17 January 1965) is a Chinese civil rights lawyer who specialises in press freedom, defamation, and product safety, and other issues.

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Public Delivery

Public Delivery is an organization for contemporary art, founded in Seoul, South Korea in 2011.

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Qu Leilei

Qu Leilei (曲磊磊, born 1951) is a contemporary Chinese artist currently based in the UK.

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Radio Free Asia

Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit international broadcasting corporation that broadcasts and publishes online news, information, and commentary to listeners in East Asia while "advancing the goals of U.S. foreign policy." Founded in the 1950s as an anti-communist propaganda operation, RFA is currently funded by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), an independent agency of the United States government responsible for all non-military, international broadcasting sponsored by the U.S. government (such as Radio Free Europe), which appoints the board of RFA.

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Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders (RWB), or Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press.

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Richard Pousette-Dart

Richard Warren Pousette-Dart (June 8, 1916 – October 25, 1992) was an American artist most recognized as a founder of the New York School of painting.

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River crab (Internet slang)

River crab and harmonious/harmonize/harmonization are Internet slang terms created by Chinese netizens in reference to Internet censorship or the other censorship of China.

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Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its charter granted in 1837 and Supplemental Charter granted in 1971.

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Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts

The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts (Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna), commonly called the Royal Academy, is located in Stockholm, Sweden.

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San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary in the US state of California.

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Shihezi

Shihezi is a sub-prefecture-level city in northern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.

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Sichuan schools corruption scandal

After the May 12, 2008, earthquake in the Chinese province of Sichuan, there was a series of allegations of corruption against officials involved in the construction of schools in regions affected by the quake.

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Sina Weibo

Sina Weibo is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Sockpuppet (Internet)

A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1937 by philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim and his long-time art advisor, artist Hilla von Rebay.

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Stefen Chow

Stefen Chow (Chinese: 赵峰;born 1980, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) a Singapore-raised photographer and artist based in Beijing, China.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Sunflower Seeds (artwork)

Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) is an art installation created by contemporary artist and political activist, Ai Weiwei.

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Tan Zuoren

Tan Zuoren (born on 15 May 1954), from Chengdu, Sichuan province, People's Republic of China, is an environmentalist, writer and former editor of Literati magazine (文化人).

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Tate Modern

Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London.

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TED (conference)

TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a media organization that posts talks online for free distribution, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".

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Tessellation

A tessellation of a flat surface is the tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps.

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The Brooklyn Rail

The Brooklyn Rail is a journal of arts, culture, and politics published monthly in Brooklyn, NY.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tofu-dreg project

"Tofu-dreg project" (Traditional Chinese: 豆腐渣工程) is a phrase used in Mainland China to describe a poorly constructed building.

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Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Abbreviation: UCCA) is a contemporary art center situated in the heart of the 798 Art Zone in Beijing, China.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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Upstate New York

Upstate New York is the portion of the American state of New York lying north of the New York metropolitan area.

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Václav Havel

Václav Havel (5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, writer and former dissident, who served as the last President of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first President of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003.

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Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent

Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent is an award established in 2012 by the New York City-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF).

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Wallpaper

Wallpaper is a material used in interior decoration to decorate the interior walls of domestic and public buildings.

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Wallpaper (magazine)

Wallpaper, stylized Wallpaper*, is a Time Inc. publication focusing on design and architecture, fashion, travel, art, and lifestyle.

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WeiweiCam

WeiweiCam is a self-surveillance project by artist Ai Weiwei that went live on April 3, 2012, exactly one year after the artist's detention by Chinese officials at Beijing Airport.

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Wen Jiabao

Wen Jiabao (born 15 September 1942) was the sixth Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, serving as China's head of government for a decade between 2003 and 2013.

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Wen Wei Po

Wen Wei Po is a Hong Kong-based Chinese language newspaper, first established in Shanghai in January 1938, with the Hong Kong version launched on 9 September 1948.

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Yang Jia

Yang Jia (27 August 1980 – 26 November 2008) was a Chinese citizen executed for murdering six Shanghai police officers with a knife.

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Zhang Yimou

Zhang Yimou (born 2 April 1950) is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer.

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2008 Sichuan earthquake

The 2008 Sichuan earthquakeSome early Western reports used the term Chengdu quake; e.g.,,, etc.

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2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and commonly known as Beijing 2008, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 8 to 24 August 2008 in Beijing, China.

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2010 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese human rights activist "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".

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2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests

The 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests, also known as the Chinese Jasmine Revolution, refer to public assemblies in over a dozen cities in China starting on 20 February 2011, inspired by and named after the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia; the actions that took and take place at protest sites, and response by the Chinese government to the calls and action.

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2012 Sundance Film Festival

The 2012 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 until January 29, 2012 in Park City, Utah.

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50 Cent Party

The 50 Cent Party, or 50 Cent Army, is the colloquial term for Internet commentators, hired by Chinese authorities in an attempt to manipulate public opinion to the benefit of the Chinese Communist Party.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei

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