Sundance-award winning documentary film about China's preeminent artist-activist Ai Weiwei @aiww. Directed by Alison Klayman @aliklay. Never Retreat, Retweet!
📣NEW YORK: Join us for a book launch event this Friday with Ai Weiwei in person. Purchase of a ticket includes a signed copy of “Ai Weiwei Handbook.”
9/5/25 @ 7pm (doors 6:30)
The Strand Book Store
828 Broadway | 3rd Fl
Tickets can be purchased online:
https://t.co/YIWGtIhRIe
"My art shakes the foundation of their legitimacy, and that probably is the obstacle they can never overcome. It's not possible for them to face my challenge."
—Artist and activist Ai Weiwei (@aiww) on standing up to power in #China and his 81-day secret detention
FRIDAY
The newest film from @AWWNeverSorry director Alison Klayman premieres tonight at 8pm on @hbo and streaming on @hbomax. Check out the #JaggedHBO trailer below ⬇️
“Without even knowing I was doing it, I was carving out my voice.” - Alanis Morissette
#JaggedHBO, the second film in the #MusicBoxHBO series, premieres November 18 at 8PM on @HBOMax.
Snowden on @aiww’s memoir: “I have a book that has touched me, a book that I’ve been reading to my son…In the final pages, Ai writes: “Freedom is not a goal, but a direction.” And, I might add, wherever it leads you is home.” https://t.co/TrviIVN7Mv
My memoir 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows is out today. I wanted to tell my story and my father's, so that my son would know who we were and what we had experienced as a poet and as an artist.
#aiweiweibook
https://t.co/5xN16udtMD
“After all the convulsions that China had experienced, genuine emotions and personal memory were reduced to tiny scraps and easily replaced by the discourse of struggle and continuous revolution” -@aiww. Ai does not allow his own scraps to remain buried. https://t.co/PeW3tONsDm
At 64, @aiww is highly revered for his prodigious body of work that includes photos, sculptures, books and more.
We chat with Ai Weiwei in our Nov. 2021 issue about art, activism and his upcoming memoir (coming to shelves Nov. 2).
https://t.co/4h7o82c7tP
Wow - @aliklay of @AWWNeverSorry fame is back with a vengeance with new fly-on-the-wall documentary @TheBrinkFilm profiling #SteveBannon on his "global mission to spread far-right nationalism" https://t.co/aPn6jXTOV9
Check out one of our favorite China films: A real-life Black Mirror story about China's digital idol-making universe. SXSW-winner PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF DESIRE is now available to rent on iTunes: https://t.co/7RP5hxY98D and Amazon (https://t.co/7BAKCKHX6e)
One of my favourite docs on Ai Weiwei is available to watch on TVO for free, "Never Sorry." Watch it if you're interested in the intersection of art, activism, social media, & censorship @aliklay@AWWNeverSorry@aiwwenglish@tvo https://t.co/bImYgTPoPn
I’ve just watched @AWWNeverSorry. I feel so privileged to live in the same world as @aiww. It’s an important, thought-provoking and intriguing documentary you must see (to the very end). I’m writing this tweet in support of the end of the documentary, as well as to freedom.