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Chinese artist Weiwei has installed a number of exhibitions into the prison.
Art Review magazine’s annual Power 100 list includes the Chinese and Russian dissidents in its top 100 influential figures in the art world.
Alison Klayman, director of the new documentary about controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei tells TheJournal.ie that his future is still very uncertain.
Ai Weiwei – a vocal critic of China’s government – had decried the ruling, saying it an attempt to silence him.
The Chinese artist said last week he has been issued with a tax bill and fines of 15 million yuan.
Chinese artists and vocal rights activist Ai WeiWei has been ordered to pay €1.7 million in alleged back taxes – a move he says is an attempt to silence him.
In a lengthy speech, president Hu Jintao gave no indication of any moves toward loosening the party’s firm grip on power
Hu Jia has spent three-and-a-half years in prison for allegedly planning to disrupt the 2008 Olympics.
On his first day of freedom, the outspoken government critic said he cut his own hair.
Chinese media reports that one of the country’s leading activists has confessed to tax evasion and been released.
The influential and celebrated artist’s wife found him “changed” when she visited him briefly yesterday, in the first visit allowed to his family since he was arrested in Beijing in April.