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The world-renowned Chinese contemporary artist and dissident who scattered millions of handmade ceramic sunflower seeds across the floor of the Tate Gallery’s Turbine Hall is creating a secret ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At a certain point in Ai Weiwei: Button Up! at Manchester’s Aviva studios, it came to me that I must be ...

The dead may be migrants who drowned during a hazardous crossing, since nearby hangs a 49-meter-long dinghy carrying hundreds of similar figures alongside unfortunates who have fallen into an ...

I wouldn’t usually watch a man slowly pace a room for forty minutes. But what’s ‘usual’ seems entirely irrelevant when that man is Ai Weiwei, one of the most famous contemporary artists in the world.

A quote from George Santayana’s book The Life of Reason feels pertinent right now. “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. As you walk around the Aviva Studios’ vast warehouse ...

Acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei has often encountered censorship and surveillance throughout his career. Earlier this year, he published an extended essay "On Censorship." Here & Now's Scott ...

The Chinese activist-artist, Ai Weiwei, opens his monumental exhibition Button Up! at Factory International’s Aviva Studios today, 3 July, featuring a mix of large-scale new and existing works, many ...

Ai Weiwei with History of Bombs in Manchester.Photograph: Peter Powell/AFP/Getty Images History has repeated itself all over Ai Weiwei’s vast exhibition of monumental sculpture in Manchester. The ...

Acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei has hailed Manchester for "achieving something amazing" by creating the city's flagship Aviva Studios. The Chinese activist, who has created political sculptures, ...