Thankfully, earlier reports of the artist's torture appear to have been unfounded, according to Ai's wife.
Art and Politics: Ai Weiwei's Wife Finally Allowed Visit, While the Artist's Dealers Weigh Art HK Participation
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Art and Technology: From New Museum to Nerd Museum: Assessing the Arty Inventions Hatched at AOL's 7 on 7 Conference
Not every art and science pairing was a success at the day-long Rhizome-fronted event, but that's part of the beauty of experimentation.
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Art and Politics: The Art of Diplomacy?: On Robert Storr's New Vanilla Installation for the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
The Yale art school dean's curation of the U.S. Mission's art collection presents a surprisingly sanitized view of American artistic endeavor.
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The Daily Checklist: Wolfgang Tillmans Makes Lady Gaga Look Like a Normal Person, Mona Lisa's Crypt Discovered in Florence Convent, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, Christian Marclay's "Clock" Changes time zones.
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Photography: Is This Cat a Great Photographer?: Meet Cooper, the Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon
With a digital camera strapped to his collar, our hero stalks through town, snapping pictures and cultivating a massive following.
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Art Market: First the Guillotine, Now the Auction Block: Furor Erupts in France Over Sotheby's Sale of Robespierre's Revolutionary Papers
French historians are raising the alarm that these invaluable documents could leave French soil.
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Performing Arts: Cannes 2011 Update: Iran Cracks Down on Filmmakers, Scandalous Italians Abound, and the Second Coming of Kubrick?
With nearly a week left in the international film festival's run, the news just isn't stopping.
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Design & Architecture: Folk You!: A Blow-by-Blow of the Critical Brawl Over the Folk Art Museum's Benighted Building
A guide to the raging debate over whether the museum's Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects-designed building was the source of the institution's downfall.
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The Daily Checklist: Nazi Art Controversy Chills Russia's Winter Olympics, the Glitch in Bill Gates's National Portrait Gallery Painting, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, the NEA gave out $88 million in grants.
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Design & Architecture: Our Hanging Gardens: A Knocked-Out Preview of the High Line's Second Phase
The gala party celebrating the completion of the second leg provided an early glimpse of the elevated park's extraordinary addition, to debut in June.
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Museums: Can a Miracle Sex and Acne Drug Keep the Barnes Foundation in Merion?
The medicine with which Albert C. Barnes made his fortune will be sold once again, with a portion of proceeds going to an anti-relocation campaign.
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Arts Policy: Art Versus Bighorn Sheep: New Obstacles to Christo's "Over the River" Project in Colorado Rear Their Heads
Following the Colorado Wildlife Commission's unanimous nay vote on the project, ARTINFO takes stock of some locals' complaints.
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People: Nazi or Not So Much?: Behind the Lars Van Trier Controversy at Cannes
In an uncomfortable press conference, the provocative filmmaker rambled on about his warm feelings for Hitler.
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Postwar & Contemporary Art: Finding Order in Miro's Surrealist Chaos: A Tate Curator on 5 Key Paintings in the Artist's New Survey
Marko Daniel charts the great painter's development, from his seminal "The Farm" to late work that captures the spirit of May 68.
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The Daily Checklist: Anna Wintour Asked to Help Run the Met, Tania Bruguera Slums as an Illegal Immigrant for Art, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, see the the winners of Britain's RIBA architecture prize.
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Art Market: The Frieze Art Fair Is Indeed Coming to New York, With Mayor Bloomberg's Blessing
The admired London fair has confirmed longstanding rumors that it will open a satellite in the city, and said it is launching a new event in London, too.
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Art and Politics: The Met Freezes Dior Loan to Pushkin Museum as Diplomatic Feud Between U.S. and Russia Escalates
Moscow's overbearing reaction to a dispute of an archive of Hasidic papers is affecting the museum world at its highest levels.
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Postwar & Contemporary Art: Artist Anahita Ramzi on Her Emdash Award-Winning Iranian Protest Project
The recipient of the Frieze Art Fair's new prize will create a video version of Trisha Brown's "Roof Piece" addressing the uprising following Iran's 2009 presidential election.
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Museums: Frick Collection Names Ian Wardropper as Its New Director, Replacing Anne Poulet
The scholar will step into the role this October when the Upper East Side museum's first woman director steps down.
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Performing Arts: What Is "The Artist," and Why Is It Such a Hit at Cannes?
Michel Hazanavicius's film has been a surprise breakout success at the festival.
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