{"id":5052,"date":"2011-04-07T05:08:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T10:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2011-04-07T06:42:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T11:42:33","slug":"losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2011\/04\/07\/losing\/","title":{"rendered":"~LOSING . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

BETTER KEEP YOUR RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA T-SHIRTS – UNDER WRAPS – IN CHINA !!<\/p>\n

OR: THE BIG DIFF BETWEEN CHINA & THE GOOD OLE USA !!<\/p>\n

and yeah, just maybe CHARLIE SHEEN bad as he is – says it all. <\/p>\n

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\nDON’T BE CAUGHT WEARING THESE FIGHTING WORDS – FROM THE NYC-BASED RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA T-SHIRT SHOP – IN CHINA.<\/p>\n

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\nwhat ever happened to:
\nSticks and stones can break my bones – but names will never harm me ?
\nguess not if you are in a sensitive political bind . . . RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA right on the mark. again.
\nfirst Japan, re: creating what is essentially a presentient ‘fall-out’ communal survival shelter.
\nnow, China, re: artistic suppression. or is the world we live in – just so friggin obvious.
\nRIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA\/GBE T-SHIRT NO T-SHIRT<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nAI WEIWEI – IMAGE COURTESY\/REUTERS\/BBC NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n

according to BBC NEWS – PROMINENT ARTIST AI WEIWEI was stopped from boarding a flight out of Beijing this past weekend, and “there has been no contact with him since, and no comment from the police.”<\/p>\n

“One of his assistants told the BBC he had been held by border guards as he tried to get on a flight to Hong Kong.”<\/p>\n

“More than 20 dissidents and activists have been held in the past weeks.”<\/p>\n

“China’s authorities appear on edge over calls for a so-called Jasmine Revolution, partly inspired by pro-democracy movements in the Middle East.”<\/p>\n

see: BBC\/CHINESE ARTIST AI WEIWEI STOPPED\/APRIL 3, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

see: HYPERALLERGIC HAS SOME GOOD FACTS on THE UNFOLDING SITUATION<\/a><\/p>\n

including: a reference to the APRIL 1, 2011 report – CHINA:THE BIG CHILL by NEW YORKER CORRESPONDENT EVAN OSNOS<\/a> “which notes that the Chinese government is in the midst of the biggest crackdown on free expression ‘in years’.” <\/p>\n

and: has a fascinating – LIVE BLOG on events as they occur<\/a><\/p>\n

wow – it’s a good thing our homeboy – ALFREDO MARTINEZ – GOT OF THERE – LAST SUMMER. HE WAS HELD IN SECRET DETENTION in CHINA FOR SEVERAL MONTHS LAST SPRING\/SUMMER 2010 & HE DID MAKE AI WEIWEI’S ACQUAINTANCE – WHILE IN CHINA. IN FACT ALFREDO & JOSH HARRIS HAD RECENTLY APPROACHED AI WEIWEI ABOUT DOING A VERSION – OF JOSH’S WIRED CITY – OVER THERE.
\nDON’T THINK CHINA HAS THE RIGHT SENSE OF ‘HUMOR’ – TO PUT UP WITH OUR HARD-CORE NYC HOMEBOYS.
\nsee: ALFREDO MARTINEZ ESCAPES SECRET DETENTION IN CHINA\/LOST & FOUND In WILLIAMSBURG<\/a><\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH\/TIRAVANIJA T-SHIRT SLOGANS at GBE\/MARCH 5, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BETTER KEEP YOUR RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA T-SHIRTS – UNDER WRAPS – IN CHINA !! OR: THE BIG DIFF BETWEEN CHINA & THE GOOD OLE USA !! and yeah, just maybe CHARLIE SHEEN bad as he is – says it all. DON’T BE CAUGHT WEARING THESE FIGHTING WORDS – FROM THE NYC-BASED RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA T-SHIRT SHOP – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5072,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions\/5072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}