Ai Weiwei

BBC News - Ai Weiwei's Serpentine Pavilion design unveiled: "Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's design for a sunken pavilion in the grounds of the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens has been unveiled. Ai has reunited with Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, with whom he designed the "Bird's Nest" stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The pavilion will be the 12th in the annual Serpentine architecture series."'via Blog this'Read Full Story

Andy Warhol’s Double Elvis sold for $37 million US and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at Sotheby’s contemporary art sale.Read Full Story

Today is the (disputed) birthday of Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei. The successful sculptor, architect and open critic of the Chinese government turns 55 today, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Ai comes from a family of dissident sentimentality, as his mother and poet father were sent to a labor camp in the 1950s for denouncing the Anti-Rightist Movement of the Communist Party in China. From this alternative political position, Ai entered the world of Chinese avant-garde art...Read Full Story

This week we saw a lot of photography, from the hilarious to somber. One of the top stories was that famed Malibu photographer Paul Rusconi was cleared of allegations of raping his twin daughters, which was a momentous day for him and his family. After being cleared Friday of allegations that he raped his 20-month-old twin daughters, Paul Rusconi cried. It's been almost a year since distant family members, the nanny who took care of Rusconi's two girls, and her husband, accused him of raping...Read Full Story

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's design for a sunken pavilion in the grounds of the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens is unveiled. | bbci.co.ukRead Full Story