Ai Weiwei thrown out of Munich gallery
16 September 2019 |
3:55 pm
The Chinese artist was asked to leave the Haus der Kunst (House of Art) after voicing support for staff facing redundancy. Ai fled to Germany after his human rights activism landed him in jail in his native China.
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