Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei is the latest to go 'Gangnam Style' — but in a trademark act of irreverence, he's thrown in a pair of handcuffs and a poke at Chinese censors.

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Chinese artist and fierce government critic Ai Weiwei said on Friday his challenge against a $2.4 million fine for alleged tax evasion that he says is politically motivated had failed.

Ai Weiwei fans have again rallied behind the outspoken Chinese artist after he revealed he is being investigated on pornography charges - by posting naked pictures of themselves online.

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First it was money folded into paper planes that were flown over the walls of dissident artist Ai Weiwei's home.

Now Chinese Internet users' latest show of solidarity with Ai has taken the unlikelie

Thousands of people have donated 5.29 million yuan ($830,000) to help Ai Weiwei pay a huge tax fine, with some throwing money wrapped in paper planes into his garden, the Chinese artist said on Monday

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, detained by authorities earlier this year, was on Thursday named the world's most powerful art figure by the influential Art Review magazine, drawing Beijing's crit