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Spending Time: Colour Race and Art Fund

spending time: That's why I made a work related to this issue, according to Metro News. Ai, now based in Berlin, is considered one of the world's most successful artists. Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, presented by the Public Art Fund, will be open to the public from Thursday until Feb. 11.A global trend of trying to separate us by colour race, religion, nationality is a blow against freedom, against humanity, Ai said at a Manhattan press conference Tuesday. He spent his childhood in a remote Chinese community after his father, a poet, was exiled by Communist authorities. He was alternately encouraged, tolerated and harassed, spending time in detention and being barred for years from leaving the country. He came to New York City as an art student in the 1980s, then returned to his homeland in 1993, using his art and public platform to address political issues. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.