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  • 46_ 08.08.2008

    8 August 2008

    The Beijing Olympics get under way in the Bird’s Nest, the city’s Olympic stadium designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, in which Ai Weiwei played an artistic consultant’s role. Ai Weiwei declines to attend the opening ceremony in protest against the government’s forcible deportation of urban migrants, expropriation of land and exploitation of workers ahead of the Olympic Games.

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