"Ai Weiwei and I are very good friends. And we have this ongoing, joking discussion about China. It goes more or less like this: he would say, 'Oh man, you are so naïve, you think China is this, and this, and this.' And then I would say, 'But China is really great, blah blah.' I would exaggerate my admiration for China a little bit to oppose him. He is a very, very angry man, very angry in China. They have done things to him, and he cannot forgive. I'm a foreigner, I'm an outsider, I see things more with rose-colored glasses. But he doesn't see a great future for China. So even my argument 'at least you have a great future' doesn't work with him. more ›

Three years ago, Belgian artist Wim Delvoye's tattooed Louis Vuitton pigs were banned from more ›

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