MUSE Film and TV

MUSE Film and Television  | 18^th Annual Benefit Dinner and Auction

AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY

Date | Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Place | Sotheby’s, 1334 York Avenue @ 72 Street, 7^th Floor

Film Screening | Selects from the film AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY

About the Event | Join MUSE Film and Television as we screen select footage from Alison Klayman’s upcoming feature-length documentary on Ai Weiwei.  The screening will be followed by dinner and a live auction of photographic artwork.  Other items will be included in silent and online auctions; links to the auction items will be posted shortly.

About Ai Weiwei | Scholar, dissident, patriot, artist or activist— who is Ai Weiwei?  This much is certain: since his co-design of the Bird’s Nest Stadium for the Beijing Olympics, Ai Weiwei has catapulted to the forefront of the international art landscape, generating almost as much discomfort for his antics as admiration for his courage.

Whether smashing millenia-old Han Dynasty urns, or confronting Chinese police over a beating he received for investigating the Sichuan earthquake deaths, or turning a Twitter-advertised dinner party into a political action event, Ai Weiwei remains fearlessly outspoken, despite considerable danger to himself.  Willfully turning a blind eye to the very eye the Chinese government has relentlessly trained on him, he advocates for freedom of expression and access to information– principles all the more fragile and precious as China undergoes its remarkable internal transformation.

About the Filmmaker | Beijing-based journalist and filmmaker Alison Klayman has gained unprecedented access to Ai Weiwei, documenting his often quixotic crusade.  From his international gallery shows to his detailed studio practice, from scholarly interviews with peer artists and critics to intimate talks with family members, Alison offers a portrait of this transcendent cultural figure, a man whose fusion of art and activism resonates not only in his homeland of China but in the world at large.

For more information about this year’s Benefit, please contact us.

Please visit the official Ai Weiwei film website at www.aiweiweifilm.org.