Earlier this week, while foreign governments called on China to release Ai, China's most famous artist, from detention or state his whereabouts, Ai’s family took a more immediate strategy. They wrote out a flyer. Hand scribbled, and signed by Ai’s mother and his older sister, the flyer was photographed and circulated online, though, each time it popped up on the Web, it was censored moments later. His mother confirmed for me the authenticity. (I wrote a Profile of Ai for The New Yorker last year.) This was not a piece of art; it was an earnest appeal. Across the top, they wrote “Missing Person”:
Ai Weiwei, male, 53 years old. On April 3, 2011 around 8:30, at Beijing Capital International Airport, before boarding a flight to Hong Kong, he was taken away by two men. More than fifty hours later, present whereabouts remains unknown. Please, anyone who knows the whereabouts of the above, contact the family
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