For the Beijing-born artist Ai Weiwei, freedom has come at a cost. The “artivist”, in honour of his deceased poet and dissident father, has dedicated his life to empowering the Chinese masses, telling the tale of their historical plight by radically sticking it to “the man”. From famously smashing up 2,000-year-old Chinese Han Dynasty urns in order to highlight the country's destruction of cultural heritage, to filling the turbine hall of the Tate Modern with one million…
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