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Brutality of oppression: Ai Weiwei speaks on Gaza, China and New York City

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei holds some seeds from his Unilever Installation, Sunflower Seeds, at The Tate Modern on October 11, 2010, in London [Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images]

“Power is afraid of art and poets,” writes Ai Weiwei in Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir.

He would know. The renowned artist is a notorious rankler of the powers that be, particularly in his native China, where Communist Party leadership came to fear him to such a ferocious degree that he has endured prison, torture and now exile.

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