Artists should exploit AI’s capabilities, say creators of new Tate Modern show Exhibition traces long relationship between artists and technology, a symbiosis that is sure to continue The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2024
Namedropping: is Mona’s latest exhibition its most annoying yet? Framed as an exploration of why we prize fame, this sprawling, defensive exhibition is overshadowed by one man’s quest for status via his museum The Guardian - AU · Jun 25, 2024
The history of AI art: it goes back further than you might think How artificial intelligence art has evolved from the 1960s to today. Creative Bloq · Jun 12, 2024
Salman Rushdie, Ai Weiwei and a knife in the eye Despite enormous threats to their life and work, the writer and the artist remain steadfastly courageous and optimistic. Here’s why we need more like them The Hindu · May 3, 2024
OPINION - The Standard View: Ai Weiwei's warnings ought to be heeded Talk to Ai Weiwei about freedom of expression. The great Chinese artist — who endured exile as a child and again as an adult following his imprisonment for speaking out against the regime — has plenty to say. Evening Standard · Feb 9, 2024
Ai Weiwei on exile, censorship, AI and his Evening Standard front page design for the Chinese New Year The legendary dissident artist tells Martin Robinson about his new Ai vs AI exhibition in Piccadilly and the chilling similarities he sees between western cancel culture and Chinese oppression. Plus: Standard readers can win a print by the artist! Evening Standard · Feb 9, 2024
Brutality of oppression: Ai Weiwei speaks on Gaza, China and New York City ‘Speak your thoughts loudly and without considering the consequences,’ says the artist. Al Jazeera · Jan 27, 2024
Ai vs AI: Ai Weiwei asks the big questions nightly in central London Ai Weiwei and Circa consider the role of the question in Piccadilly Circus, London Wallpaper · Jan 20, 2024
Take in a sunset, a snowstorm or a baby’s cry, and see why AI is no threat to art Technology is no match for the human will, with all its potential for creativity and the possibility of making mistakes, says artist and activist Ai Weiwei The Guardian - UK · Jan 13, 2024
First Thing: White House gives major boost to electric vehicle charging points Biden administration unveils $623m in funding amid concern that transition to zero-carbon transportation not keeping pace with climate crisis. Plus, Ai Weiwei on AI art The Guardian - UK · Jan 11, 2024
Art that can be easily copied by AI is ‘meaningless’, says Ai Weiwei Chinese artist responds to debate about data-scraping as he prepares for new collaboration with AI The Guardian - UK · Jan 11, 2024
Peter Gabriel - i/o album review: lunar-inspired, slow-burning contemplation For his first album in twenty years, the former Genesis singer has enlisted a huge cast of stars, including Ai Weiwei, Cornelia Parker, and Brian Eno Evening Standard · Nov 30, 2023
From The Hunger Games to Cary Grant: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment The latest addition to the dystopian franchise arrives, while a biopic follows the early travails of the Bristol schoolboy who would be a Hollywood giant The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2023
Durham transforms into ‘living art gallery’ as Lumiere festival begins Four-day event presents works by artists including Javier Riera and Ai Weiwei at the cathedral, bridges and other spaces The Guardian - UK · Nov 16, 2023
The Guardian - AU · Nov 15, 2023 Morning Mail: Labor reveals visa fix, politics at the Arias, India through to World Cup final New legislation today will criminalise breach of visa conditions
The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2023 London gallery delays Ai Weiwei show over Israel-Hamas tweet Chinese dissident’s exhibition was due to open at the Lisson gallery but has been put on hold indefinitely
Evening Standard · Nov 15, 2023 Ai Weiwei says he has been 'effectively cancelled' by gallery for Israel tweet The Lisson Gallery said there was "no place for debate that can be characterised as antisemitic or Islamophobic”
The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2023 ‘A triumph of freedom of expression’: censored art museum opens in Spain Barcelona gallery will feature works on religion, politics and consumerism that have been denounced, removed or attacked
The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2023 Ai Weiwei: Censorship is ‘suffocating’ Chinese creativity The Chinese artist has welcomed the publication of author Wang Xiaobo’s work in English for the first time. By Prudence Wade.
The Guardian - UK · Jul 16, 2023 The humble button goes from mere fastener to a place on the gallery wall Inspired by the work of ceramicist Lucie Rie, Ai Weiwei and other top artists are telling deeply personal stories on a tiny ‘canvas’
The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2023 Never underestimate a droid: robots gather at AI for Good summit in Geneva Ai-da, Desdemona, Nadine and Geminoid join world’s largest gathering of humanoids to promote AI as force for good
Evening Standard · Jun 21, 2023 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…
The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2023 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
The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2023 Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Air to Beef All the cultural highlights for Easter weekend
The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2023 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