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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Ai Weiwei
‘The Fake Case’
The world rallied to Ai Weiwei’s cause when he was incarcerated on trumped up charges in 2011. Now, a new documentary goes inside the activist artist's ordeal and the art that it produced.
Justin Jones
Published
May 15 2014
5:45AM EDT
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