Its incredible to think, at this stage of game, that an artist can be still be considered a politically destabilizing threat. But that is the present fate of Ai Weiwei, who’s head has been kicked in and now resides, courtesy of the government, in a prison cell the location of which is remains unknown. Like Warhol courted celebrity, Weiwei provokes staid bureaucracies. At the expense of seeming flippant, another mystery is the whereabouts of the sculpture I bought awaiting an export license.
Kenny Schachter