The Figge will be presenting the final film that has been part of a monthly series featuring award-winning, independent films about the arts in the Figge's John Deere Auditorium.  Films honored as examples of great filmmaking, acknowledged for their excellence in cinematic storytelling with limited or no distribution. Viewers will experience unexpected stories about the arts through these extraordinary films about remarkable achievements in the arts. The films are being presented as part of the Figge's FREE Thursdays at the Figge programming and registration is not required. 

Free admission and programs for Thursdays at the Figge sponsored by: Chris and Mary Rayburn.

The final film in the series is: 

• Thursday, May 12
  Film: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
  In December 2008, 24-year-old American Alison Klayman, two years out of college and living in China, was invited to make a short movie about an installation of 10,000 photographs that Ai Weiwei had taken while living in New York between 1983 and 1993. Klayman followed Ai Weiwei for three years, gaining unprecedented access, interviewing him, following him into streets, galleries, restaurants and police stations. During those years, Chinese authorities shut down his blog, beat him up, bulldozed his newly built studio, and held him for 81 days in secret detention. In 2011, Art Review magazine named Ai Weiwei the most powerful person in the art world. It is at times no longer possible to see the divide between Ai Weiwei’s life and his art.   

     VIEW AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY TRAILER