Ai Weiwei

Perhaps the first words I ever said. Beijing olympics will always be remembered. The Great Bears' mass of tangled string will always stand, even if it gets knocked down. Chinas' leading artist, perhaps the worlds, shall reveal on tuesday his work for Tate Moderns turbine hall. His father was a painter and a great poet yet his family were put in a labour camp where he was beaten, cleaned toilets for five years. Though Weiwei has a green card he chose to return and work in China. The exhibition Fuck Off had an installation of an ancient Han vase painted with a coka cola logo , another he dropped , the photo of the debris titled So Sorry. Weiwei has never visited the birds nest, perhaps Chinas' most iconic building since the Great Wall and doubts he ever will. He sees the polarities we face as the 'interesting' versus the 'dreadful', not right versus left, east versus west. The Chinese authorities are aware of his heresy and he has taken more than a few beatings. Perhaps the most exciting event of the coming week.