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OPINION - Treasured spaces: why London needs pavilions

A new pavilion at the Serpentine Galleries in Hyde Park is now firmly established as a regular moment in London’s annual calendar. Provocative, thoughtful or both, the prestigious architectural commission has seen work by Zaha Hadid, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Gehry, Ai Weiwei and Sumayya Vally. Now the Lebanese/French architect Lina…

Evening Standard

Ai Weiwei: Making Sense review – horror, playfulness and delight

From neolithic tools to Monet in Lego, the artist contemplates the human freight of things made and of use – or useless – across millennia in a show that’s at once elegiac and affirmative

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Ai Weiwei smashes it, Steve McQueen stuns and Brookside goes ceramic – the week in art

The Chinese activist artist demolishes his sculptures, the Turner-winner memorialises Grenfell and the 90s soap opera is immortalised in Yorkshire

The Guardian - UK

Ai Weiwei at the Design Museum: “We’re building a society on greed and selfishness”

‘I always pay attention to all the refugee situations, not because I’m a refugee, but I’m trying to see where our humanity is going to be... those boats carry our trust in humanity’

Evening Standard

Ai Weiwei, Design Museum review: The master provocateur creates timeless beauty from historical objects

The exiled Chinese artist turns his industrial-scale collecting into sinister yet quietly moving, meditative works in Making Sense

The Independent UK

New Ai Weiwei Design Museum exhibition to feature never-seen-before works

Ai Weiwei: Making Sense will be the artist’s biggest UK show in eight years.

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Ai Weiwei finds peace in Portugal: ‘I could throw away all my art and not feel much’

As he eases into farmhouse life, the artist is preparing for an epic design show that will feature 200,000 spouts from broken teapots and jugs. He talks about Chinese might, western jealousy – and his urge to spend

The Guardian - UK

Monet in Lego, modern art’s birth and Hockney’s bigger leash – the week in art

Ai Weiwei recreates a masterpiece in 650,000 pieces, Picasso and Matisse as arty midwives and dog portraits you won’t find in a charity shop – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Ai Weiwei has made a giant version of Monet’s Water Lilies out of Lego... and it’s coming to London

The work will go on show at the Design Museum next month

Evening Standard

Ai Weiwei's largest-ever Lego artwork revealed at London’s Design Museum

At London’s Design Museum, Ai Weiwei has revealed Water Lilies #1, a new Lego recreation of Claude Monet’s iconic painting. We explore the vast new work ahead of the Chinese artist’s major show at the museum, opening on 7 April 2023

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Ai Weiwei’s Lego re-imagining of Monet’s water lilies to go on show in London

Exclusive: 15-metre-long work made up of 650,000 Lego bricks to form part of artist’s biggest UK show in eight years

The Guardian - UK

From potato worlds to dancing vaginas: Ai Weiwei leads a dip into witchcraft and weird nature

Inspired by a Dartmoor witch’s cauldron, Earth Spells features magnificent oddities, including a human-headed hen, while Super Natural, another south-west show, ties wisdom to the Earth, not least in Ai Weiwei’s tree root sculpture

The Guardian - UK

Ai Weiwei launches new exhibit, says still trying to understand studio demolitions

London (AFP) - Dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Monday said the Chinese state's razing of his studios still fails to make "any sense" to him, as he launched his first design-focused exhibition, due to open in London in April.

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The Standard View: As Tory sleaze returns, the self-styled ‘integrity’ prime minster has a point to prove

Polls are a snapshot, not a prediction. Nevertheless, party leaders would always prefer to be leading than trailing.

The Independent UK

Artist Ai Weiwei to launch ‘long overdue’ first design-focused exhibition

The exhibition, opening in April, will feature hundreds of thousands of objects collected by the Chinese artist, from Stone Age tools to Lego bricks.

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Artist Ai Weiwei to launch first design-focused exhibition at Design Museum

The exhibition, opening in April, will feature hundreds of thousands of objects collected by the Chinese artist, from Stone Age tools to Lego bricks.

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New passport rankings show that the world is opening up – but not for everyone

Salman Rushdie, the celebrated Anglo-Indian writer, once declared that the “most precious book” he possessed was his passport.

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All those in favour say Ai

For much of his life, Ai Weiwei has fought the oppression of the Chinese Communist Party. As he signs sheets of A4 in invisible ink at Speakers’ Corner — a reference to the protests currently going on in his home country — Kate Wills heads down to meet him

The Independent UK

Dissident artist Weiwei says China unrest won't alter regime

Dissident Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is taking heart from recent public protests in China over the authorities’ strict COVID-19 policy

Reuters

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says COVID protests will not shake government

From his Portuguese home, Ai Weiwei, the high-profile Chinese dissident whose art has often criticized Beijing's policies, said the recent wave of protests would not shake Xi Jinping's government because the police would simply crush them into silence.

The Guardian - UK

Ximei review – Ai Weiwei produces inspiring portrait of Chinese Aids activist

Liu Ximei, who was diagnosed with HIV at 10, is shown as a dauntless campaigner whose home provides a warm haven for patients still neglected in China

Tribune News Service

A World Cup of political symbolism in silence

They call soccer the beautiful game, and spectacular moments from its greatest showcase, the World Cup, linger in the mind’s eye like jewels.

France 24

Asia NOW Paris art fair: A platform for Asia's creative scene and its diaspora

In this special edition of the programme, we take you to Asia NOW, Europe's premier Asian art fair. This year, it was relocated from a private mansion in the French capital to the Monnaie de Paris, which houses the world’s oldest continuously running mint. Some 27,000 people attended this eighth…

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China Congress shows 'ruthless' leadership: Ai Weiwei

Tokyo (AFP) - Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei hit out at the country's rulers Monday, branding them "ruthless" after Xi Jinping secured a historic third term as leader.

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