Chinese authorities are razing the Beijing studio of dissident artist Ai Weiwei, as his team race to remove years’ worth of his sculptures.
“Farewell,” Ai wrote on Instagram, below footage of an excavator clawing at a hole in the concrete wall, as workers boxed artwork in the cavernous hall.
“They started to demolish my studio ‘Zuoyou’ in Beijing with no precaution,” he wrote in English.
He posted a series of other images of the studio, a former car parts factory in Beijing’s outer suburbs, which has been his main base since 2006.
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