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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to start heavy metal band

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (C) talks to the media outside a court in Beijing on September 27, 2012. (AFP)

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose oeuvre already spans genres from film to architecture, is taking on a new medium with plans for a hard rock album, he told AFP on Tuesday. Ai’s avant-garde works, which also include visual arts and sculpture, have been exhibited around the world, but he…

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Chinese dissident Weiwei banned from challenging multi-million-dollar tax bill

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei sits at a computer at his Beijing office in April 2012. The dissident artist has accused Chinese authorities of trying to "crush him" after he was barred from a hearing challenging a multi-million-dollar tax penalty against a firm he founded. (AFP Photo/Ed Jones)

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was barred from a hearing Wednesday challenging a multi-million-dollar tax order against a firm he founded, he said, accusing authorities of trying to “crush” him. Ai, an internationally acclaimed artist also renowned for his political activism, disappeared into custody for 81 days last year as…

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