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The Case for Ai Weiwei

by The Art Assignment

Speaker: Sarah Urist Green

Additional resources:

Ai WeiWei’s website

Ai WeiWei on Art21

Cite this page as: The Art Assignment, "The Case for Ai Weiwei," in Smarthistory, August 2, 2017, accessed September 22, 2019, https://smarthistory.org/case-for-ai-weiwei/.

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