Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Kyi May Kaung's message left for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei on the Hirschorn Museum site -

Dear Ai Weiwei, As a writer and visual artist born in Burma and now living in the USA and increasingly labeled a dissident or dissenting artist - I am fascinated by your work. I hope your ordeal in China ends soon and you can join the free world again. Move back to New York! Kyi May Kaung.

Make sure you read the Introduction--from which this excerpt is taken:

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