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The Detention of Ai Weiwei
In 2011 Chinese authorities detained Ai Weiwei without charge for 81 days and later held his passport for years, part of a sustained campaign of censorship, surveillance, and pressure against the country's most prominent dissident artist.
The Knoedler Gallery Forgery Scandal
For over 15 years, the venerable Knoedler gallery sold some 40 forged Abstract Expressionist paintings — fake Rothkos, Pollocks, and de Koonings painted in a Queens garage — for around $80 million, before the fraud collapsed the 165-year-old institution.
Ai Weiwei
China's most prominent contemporary artist and dissident. Detained without charge for 81 days in 2011 and stripped of his passport for years, he has faced repeated censorship and surveillance for work confronting the Chinese state — from investigating earthquake deaths to dropping a Han Dynasty urn.
Pei-Shen Qian
Chinese-born painter in Queens who produced the fake Rothkos, Pollocks, and de Koonings at the heart of the Knoedler Gallery scandal — the fraud that toppled New York's oldest art gallery. Indicted in 2014, he fled to China, which does not extradite its citizens.
Two Thousand Years, One Bad Afternoon
A man climbed the barriers and jumped nearly six metres into an excavation pit at Xi'an, pushing and pulling the ancient clay soldiers and damaging at least two before guards subdued him.