Hot! Call For The Release Of Ai Weiwei

On April 3, internationally acclaimed Chinese designer Ai Weiwei was detained with the Beijing air port while en method to Hong Kong, and his forms as well as desktops were seized through his facilities compound. Ai azines whereabouts remain mysterious and due practice underneath Chinese rules may be denied him.

We affiliates of the overseas arts community sole your matter intended for Ai ersus freedom and failure inside China s reluctance to live up to their assurance for you to nurture creative imagination plus impartial thought, the particular tips to help fluffy electric power and also personal influence.

Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum plus Foundation plus Alexandra Munroe, Samsung Senior Curator, Asian Art Juan Ignacio Vidarte, Director General, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and Deputy Director and Chief Officer with regard to Global Strategies, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Glenn Lowry, Director, The Museum regarding Modern Art, New York Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate along with Chris Dercon, Director, Tate Modern Kaywin Feldman, President, Association of Art Museum Directors plus Director and President, Minneapolis Institute with Arts Yongwoo Lee, President, The Gwangju Biennale Foundation Michael Govan, Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Vishakha Desai, President as well as Melissa Chiu, Vice President associated with Global Arts, Asia Society Jim Cuno, President and Director, Art Institute regarding Chicago Juli n Zugazagoitia, Director, Nelson Atkins Museum , Kansas City Ann Philbin, Director, Hammer Museum, University regarding California, Los Angeles Olga Viso, Director, Walker Art Center Alfred Pacquement, Director, Mus at the nationwide d'art moderne/Centre de cr ation industrielle, Paris Arnold Lehman, Director, Brooklyn Museum Jill Medvedow, Director, Institute involving Contemporary Art, Boston Julia Peyton-Jones, Director and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-director of Exhibitions plus Programmes in addition to Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London Poul Erik T jner, Director, Louisiana Museum connected with Modern Art, Denmark Nathalie Bondil, Director as well as Chief Curator, Montreal Museum with Fine Arts Neal Benezra, Director, San Francisco Museum with Modern Art Tony Ellwood, Director, and Suhanya Raffel, Deputy Director, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth along with John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museums Ann Goldstein, Director, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Apinan Poshynanda, Bangkok Art and also Culture Centre Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director, dOCUMENTA (13) along with Bernd Leifeld, CEO, documenta Manray Hsu, Founding Director, Taipei Contemporary Art Center Holly Hotchner, Nanette L. Laitman Director, Museum of Arts in addition to Design, New York Joel Wachs, President, Andy Warhol Foundation for your Visual Arts, New York Christy MacLear, Executive Director, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York Marcelo Ara jo, Executive Director, in addition to Ivo Mesquita, Chief Curator, Pinacoteca de S o Paulo

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