Its statement said: “After extensive conversations with Ai Weiwei, following a comment he posted online, we together agreed that now is not the right time to present his new body of work.”
He also said the Jewish community has a strong influence in the media, finance and culture in the US, and that America’s $3bn (£2.45bn) annual military support to Israel meant the two countries have a “shared destiny”.
Ai said he had replied to another user who had asked him a question, and he had “attempted to be objective and neutral without moral judgment, accusations, or evaluation of human actions”.
It added: “Ai Weiwei is well-known for his support of freedom of expression and for championing the oppressed, and we deeply respect and value our longstanding relationship with him.”
Ai Weiwei is a contemporary artist, documentarian and activist who found global prominence after being openly critical of the Chinese government’s stance on democracy and human rights.
He was born in Beijing in 1957, and grew up in labour camps in the north-west of China after his father, Ai Qing, an anti-establishment poet, was exiled.
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Its statement said: “After extensive conversations with Ai Weiwei, following a comment he posted online, we together agreed that now is not the right time to present his new body of work.”
He also said the Jewish community has a strong influence in the media, finance and culture in the US, and that America’s $3bn (£2.45bn) annual military support to Israel meant the two countries have a “shared destiny”.
Ai said he had replied to another user who had asked him a question, and he had “attempted to be objective and neutral without moral judgment, accusations, or evaluation of human actions”.
It added: “Ai Weiwei is well-known for his support of freedom of expression and for championing the oppressed, and we deeply respect and value our longstanding relationship with him.”
Ai Weiwei is a contemporary artist, documentarian and activist who found global prominence after being openly critical of the Chinese government’s stance on democracy and human rights.
He was born in Beijing in 1957, and grew up in labour camps in the north-west of China after his father, Ai Qing, an anti-establishment poet, was exiled.
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