Art Threat: Ai Wei Wei installs live webcams in home – Artists winks at Chinese authorities with a Big Brother flourish

Artist Ai Wei Wei has installed live webcams in his home so that authorities – and worried supporters – can keep track of his day-to-day whereabouts and welfare. Feeling hemmed in by increasingly invasive state surveillance – being followed day-to-day, round-the-clock surveillance on his home, searches of his studio, phone

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Art Threat: Postcolonial politics threatens integrity of Documenta 13 art exhibition – Indigenous group protests artists’ use of sacred meteorite

It is a tale of postcolonial politics, cyber-archeology and art. Two Argentinian artists are being challenged by a growing international campaign to stop their plan to ship a 37 ton meteorite from Argentina to Kassels, Germany for the Documenta 13 art exhibition. The meteorite, known as El Chaco (pictured above

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