Ai Weiwei
How else to describe an artist who has consistently served Chinese authorities a serious dose of their own mind-fuck tactics and lived to blog the tale? Weiwei's relentless baiting of the Chinese government (he once held a party while they razed his new studio) suggests that his recent arrest might be more of a self-fulfilling prophecy than would be tactful to suggest. And yet there is an undeniably Ghandhi-esque masochism about the whole exchange that's difficult to ignore.
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