As Support Grows
for the Missing Ai Weiwei,
State-Run Chinese Newspaper
Issues ‘Ominous Editorial'
by Steve Delahoyde on April 7, 2011 7:02 AM
Despite more calls for his release from countries
across the world, which now include the US and
the UK, and even more newspaper, magazine and
online editorials demanding the same, artist
Ai Weiwei still hasn’t been heard from since his
arrest and detainment on Sunday as he attempted
to leave his native China. However, as the
Telegraph reports, the state-run Global Times
issued “an ominous editorial” yesterday, saying in part:
across the world, which now include the US and
the UK, and even more newspaper, magazine and
online editorials demanding the same, artist
Ai Weiwei still hasn’t been heard from since his
arrest and detainment on Sunday as he attempted
to leave his native China. However, as the
Telegraph reports, the state-run Global Times
issued “an ominous editorial” yesterday, saying in part:
“Ai Weiwei [...] has been close to the red line of
Chinese law. As long as Ai Weiwei continuously
marches forward, he will inevitably touch the red
line one day,” the newspaper wrote. “Ai Weiwei will
be judged by history, but he will pay a price for his
special choice,” it added.
While certainly not a positive development in the slightest,
the attention this detainment has received has grown
dramatically, which one believes might benefit the artist in
the end (Art Info has saidthat he “may at this moment be
the most famous artist in the world” and have filed this great
report on how he got there) Closer to home, in New York, the
city has said it will move forward on the public art project it
commissioned from Weiwei that will “occupy the Pulitzer
Fountain outside the Plaza Hotel” and is set to be finished next
month. And in China, people are managing to get around
Chinese sensors online to voice their support by writing
“Love the Future” instead of “Ai Weiei,” as they both look and
sound very similar when written in Chinese characters.
the attention this detainment has received has grown
dramatically, which one believes might benefit the artist in
the end (Art Info has saidthat he “may at this moment be
the most famous artist in the world” and have filed this great
report on how he got there) Closer to home, in New York, the
city has said it will move forward on the public art project it
commissioned from Weiwei that will “occupy the Pulitzer
Fountain outside the Plaza Hotel” and is set to be finished next
month. And in China, people are managing to get around
Chinese sensors online to voice their support by writing
“Love the Future” instead of “Ai Weiei,” as they both look and
sound very similar when written in Chinese characters.
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