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Amanpour

The Power Of Art To Support Human Rights

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

China’s most celebrated artist, Ai Weiwei, explains why he’s slamming the use of the stadium he created … Amid the saber rattling between Russia and NATO, what’s really behind Moscow’s obsession with Ukraine? … Why one of the most distinguished works of Holocaust literature is under attack. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello everyone and welcome to Ammonpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:37.0

For me it's a big disappointment.

0:41.0

Not only how it's being used but also how the directions China is taking.

0:50.3

China's most celebrated artist slams the use of the stadium he created at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

0:57.0

I speak with I Wei Wei about the power of art as activism to support human rights.

1:02.0

Then, amid the saber- as activism to support human rights.

1:02.8

Then, amid the saber rattling between Russia and NATO,

1:07.0

what's really behind Moscow's obsession with Ukraine?

1:10.6

I ask author and Russia propaganda expert Peter Pomeransa and war historian Margaret

1:16.2

McMillan. Also, one of the most distinguished works of Holocaust literature

1:20.6

is under attack. I think it's part of the dangerous and

1:24.2

perilous times that we're living in. Walter Isakson speaks with Art

1:28.0

Spiegelman about the banning of his graphic novel Mouse in Tennessee

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