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The demolished Zhengyang Creative Art Zone, Beijing, January 20 2010. Photo by Wenjei Cheng for ArtAsiaPacific.

Mass Eviction of Beijing Artists

AI WEIWEI photographing himself at a Munich hospital in September 2009, with a bag containing fluid that was surgically removed from his skull. Courtesy the artist and Haus der

Ai Weiwei Hospitalized After Beating By Chinese Police

Digital rendering of University of New South Wales’ College of Fine Arts Gallery, scheduled for completion in late 2011. Courtesy Architectus, Sydney.

Government Greenlights Expensive New Public Museum

BEHJAT SADR, Abstract III, 1961, oil on canvas, 19.4 × 28 cm. Courtesy Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection.

Behjat Sadr (1925–2009)

YOKO ONO’s Painting to Hammer a Nail, 1961, with various items nailed on by visitors, at the Seattle Art Museum, 2009. Collection of the artist. Courtesy Seattle Art Museum.

Yoko Ono Work Controversy

RAM KUMAR, MF HUSAIN, TYEB and SAKINA MEHTA at “Let History Cut Across Me Without Me” at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 1993. Photo by Ram Rahman.

Tyeb Mehta (1925–2009)

A photo of a surveillance camera monitoring AI WEIWEI’s house in Beijing, posted on the artist’s blog in June 2009. Courtesy Ai Weiwei.

Ai Continues Activism Against China; Government Responds

Photojournalist Seized at India-Bangladesh Border

Photojournalist Seized at India-Bangladesh Border

Ai Weiwei with his list of names of schoolchildren who died in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, posted on the wall of his office at FAKE Design in Beijing, May 2009. Courtesy Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei Challenges China's Government Over Earthquake

Abu Dhabi Collects Cultural Capital