'Good feeling': Ai Weiwei picks Portugal for new show, home


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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses in front of one of his artworks that is made with Portuguese traditional 'azulejo' tiles, at his exhibition 'Rapture' at the Cordoaria Nacional exhibition centre in Lisbon. Photo: AP

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is putting on the biggest show of his career, and he is doing it in a place he’s fallen in love with: Portugal.

The world-renowned visual artist’s new exhibition Rapture opened in the Portuguese capital Lisbon recently.

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