From new Portuguese home, Ai Weiwei plans tribute to ‘visionary’ Gorbachev

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MONTEMOR-O-NOVO — Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident whose activist art has made him Beijing’s best-known critic, has swapped life in British exile for Portugal, where, in a countryside estate east of Lisbon, he is working on a monument commemorating Mikhail Gorbachev. Ai’s move to Berlin in 2015, partly out of gratitude at German lobbying for […]

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