Why Ai Weiwei was compelled to take on the Global Refugee Crisis in his new documentary

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Los Angeles Times

By Deborah Vankin, Contact Reporter

October 6, 2017

Ai Weiwei may be China’s most famous contemporary artist and a prolific social justice activist. But at his core, Ai insists, he is simply an observer.

He’s a wanderer too. Not to mention a relentless documenter — of the Chinese communist government, of international human rights violations, of the 40-some cats that roam his Beijing art studio and of the longtime team members who populate his Berlin art studio, a 150-year-old underground beer cellar. Read more