Join us for May's Film at the Figge series that is part of the Figge's FREE Thursdays at the Figge programming. This month's film is Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. In December 2008, 24-year-old American Alison Klayman, two years out of college and living in China, was invited to make a short movie about an installation of 10,000 photographs that Ai Weiwei had taken while living in New York between 1983 and 1993. Klayman followed Ai Weiwei for three years, gaining unprecedented access, interviewing him, following him into streets, galleries, restaurants and police stations. During those years, Chinese authorities shut down his blog, beat him up, bulldozed his newly built studio, and held him for 81 days in secret detention. In 2011, Art Review magazine named Ai Weiwei the most powerful person in the art world. It is at times no longer possible to see the divide between Ai Weiwei’s life and his art.

Admission is free and registration is not required. 

VIEW AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY TRAILER

Free admission and programs for Thursdays at the Figge sponsored by Chris and Mary Rayburn