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The Week In Art: Gone With The Wind, Moving Human Sparklers, Ai Weiwei And More!

This week we saw a lot of photography, from the hilarious to somber.

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Happy Birthday, Ai Weiwei!

The successful sculptor, architect and open critic of the Chinese government turns 55 today, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Warhol 'Elvis' Fetches $37M At NYC Auction

Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis" sold for $37 million and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei broke their own records at Sotheby's contemporary art sale on Wednesday.

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05/31/12 Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei's Sparkling 2012... Source: Inhabitat The much-awaited 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei is set to open tomorrow in London, marking the start of summer in London.
05/31/12 Blog: 23 years after Tiananmen, China is still paying Source: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Two high-profile cases have brought the stresses of constant home surveillance and intimidation into the international media.
05/31/12 Culture coach: the week's essential arts stories Source: The Guardian - London - UK Michael Haneke's Amour took the Palme D'Or at Cannes.
05/30/12 Ai Weiwei the architect Source: BBC London That he is working on a project in London at all is a miracle, enabled by a long-standing collaboration with the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron (designers of Tate Modern and, with Ai, the Beijing Olympic Stadium) and the Serpentine Gallery's annual commission.
05/30/12 A bidder, a cause, an uprising Source: Telluride Daily Planet - Telluride CO With a film about a photographer's quest to capture images of vanishing glaciers, speakers focusing on species loss and an art show portraying the effects of changing weather on the Tibetan culture, climate change played a prominent role in the 2012 Mountainfilm Festival.

Background on ai weiwei

Ai Weiwei (born 18 May 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism.

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