Ai Weiwei on living in exile, his artistic reaction to coronavirus and making a secret Wuhan film

Ai Weiwei’s mother is visibly pained recalling her son’s life as a newborn.“He was born at his father’s darkest time,” says Gao Ying in the new documentary, Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly, released earlier this month from First Run Features.The film, directed by Cheryl Haines, co-directed by Gina Leibrecht and available to stream through select cinema websites in the US, explores the Chinese artist and human rights activist’s 2014 public art intervention, @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz. And it has much…

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