Virtual Event: Ai Weiwei
Co-hosted by the University Club of Chicago, Writers Bloc and the Skirball Cultural Center
In his widely anticipated memoir 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, Ai Weiwei—“one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times)—tells an epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, the nation’s most celebrated poet. Ai Weiwei has been hailed as “an eloquent and seemingly unsilenceable voice of freedom” by the New York Times, and his memoir is both an illumination into his artistic process and a contextualization of the Chinese history underlying his life story.
“An impassioned testament to the enduring powers of art—to challenge the state and the status quo, to affirm essential and inconvenient truths, and to assert the indispensable agency of imagination and will in the face of political repression.” —Michiko Kakutani