Ai Weiwei's Home Deco

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Jamil Anderlini, Rooms With a Viewpoint. He is still under a form of house arrest but the chinese artist and dissident airs his opinions through his works and on his walls. financial times, Feb 25, 2012 (in the weekly section Hopuse & Home, every Saturday; with 8 photos).
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/6fdcaa ... 1-00144feabdc0.html

(a) Excerpt in the window of print; in a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you'

(b) Quote:

"He [Ai] is also not supposed to do any interviews [in the house arrest], especially with foreign reporters, who are noy under control of the oppressive censorship regime.

"Just an hour or two after I leave Ai's house, I get a call telling me that the police have paid a visit with a warrant and sommoned his wife to a local police station for questioning. After a few hours she is released but Ai tells me he believes she may have been called in as punishment for him speaking to the media.

(c) Note:
(i) To read this report, there is no need to register with newspaper's website.
(ii) The title of the article (Rooms With a Viewpoint) is a word play on
A Room with a View (film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_with_a_View_(film)
(iii) Andy Warhol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
(1928-1987; His studio (The Factory) was a famous gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons)