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Berlin-based Chinese dissident artist Ai WeiWei speaks to AFP reporters in Berlin on August 15, 2019. - The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei sees no other way out of the Hong Kong crisis than a violent and massive repression of demonstrations by Beijing, according to the influential dissident in exile in an AFP interview. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)

Ai Weiwei on activism in the US, his art response to COVID-19 and a secret Wuhan film

July 27, 2020 at 5:27 p.m.

Ai Weiwei's mother is visibly pained recalling her son's life as a newborn. "He was born at his father's darkest time," she says in the new documentary, "Ai Weiwei: Yours...

Lucas Museum appoints key staff, including curator from the Art Institute of Chicago

July 9, 2020 at 11:21 a.m.

George Lucas' $1-billion Museum of Narrative Art, under construction in Los Angeles' Exposition Park, announced on Thursday the hiring of a chief curator who will join five other key new...

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art recently released a concept design for a possible building in Expo Park by Chinese architect Ma Yansong

Los Angeles will be home to George Lucas’ $1 billion museum

May 22, 2019 at 10:56 p.m.

The suspense has been as epic as "Star Wars," but after months of intense speculation, George Lucas' Museum of Narrative Art on Tuesday chose Los Angeles as its home over...

Two women wearing envelopes over their heads with #IAMSORRY written on them walk by the Cohen Gallery. They waited in line outside for their opportunity to enter and spend time with actor and performance artist Shia LaBeouf, during his performance of "#IAMSORRY."

Shia LaBeouf stages L.A. art installation titled ‘#IAMSORRY’

December 17, 2018 at 9:33 p.m.

We know this to be true: Shia LaBeouf is sorry. Sincerely sorry. What for? In December, LaBeouf used work, without giving credit, by the illustrator Daniel Clowes in his short...

Miley Cyrus video prompts removal of sculpture at Michigan college

June 18, 2018 at 5:20 p.m.

Miley Cyrus' recently released "Wrecking Ball" music video prompted a rash of copycat photos and Vine videos by students at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich. The students climbed...

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