Ai Weiwei
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Ai Weiwei is the Chinese contemporary artist and pro-democracy activist who designed the Beijing Olympic Stadium and was subsequently imprisoned in China for his activism. Per John Kiriakou, Ai produced a Lego portrait series of 178 political prisoners while Kiriakou was himself in federal prison. Kiriakou's panel sits in the series next to one of Martin Luther King Jr.

The work now lives in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution. In a separate telling, Kiriakou groups the Ai Weiwei portrait with other unexpected gestures of support he received around his release from prison, a welcome-home call from Yoko Ono, another from Oliver Stone, and Roger Waters's anonymous payoff of his second mortgage, as evidence that "you're not alone" even in the aftermath of a prison sentence.

See also

- Andres Serrano
- John Kiriakou
