Many may have (or more likely not heard, depending on one's general character and focus) of the detention (or "disappearing") of Ai Weiwei. Now, normally one would use a description such as "artist" (which is quite a rare thing as there are so few of those!) or "activist" (suggested to me today by a journalist, which was roundly set aside), but those words are mere words and not good enough. In this case, this is a very real, very brave and very beautiful human being who so happens to work in the world of art, whose activities skirt with and stand loggerheads against the system. He has now gone missing for fourteen days- two whole weeks.
Today at 1PM local time, there was around the world at Chinese embassies a show of support- people were asked to bring chairs to stage a quiet and peaceful protest against the unlawful detention of Mr. Ai. The one in New York City looked like this (emulating the Documenta show that it was based upon):
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New York Chairs for Ai Weiwei, 17 April 2011
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| Love the Future/A Chair for Ai Weiwei (2011) |
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