Artist Ai Weiwei Denied Flight to South Korea, Learns He's Unable to Leave China

Following a very brief period this summer when his “Sunflower Seeds” installation at the Tate Modern was making headlines and winning over crowds, artist Ai Weiwei is still having a rough time of things in his native China. Though not nearly as bad as the beatings he received by officials or learning that the government there had decided to demolish his Shanghai studio and put him under house arrest, Weiwei ran into the iron fist again this week when