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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Crit

I tend to assume that polemics and art can't mix, or at least don't very effectively very often, and it is fair to say that Ai Weiwei could probably profit by limiting his autophotographed middle fingers and his "Fuck your mother" declarations, but most of the art we see here works both aesthetically and politically, and there's no denying the artfulness of his polemics--or his sheer heroism in extending that middle finger to a regime that has shown little hesitation to repress with extreme prejudice.