The artist’s latest show is a staggering takedown of colonial history, warfare and the migrant crisis, featuring buttons by the tonne and richly perfumed tea History has repeated itself all over Ai ...

The groundbreaking, exiled Chinese artist builds a hopeful new life—and a new studio, in the Portuguese countryside By Jay Cheshes Photographs by Jo Metson Scott Ai Weiwei’s relocation to Portugal was ...

Ai Weiwei, I suspect, would like me to feel guilt, and as I walk out of his new exhibition, guilt is what I feel. Not, though, over my complicity in Britain’s imperial deeds, or our more recent ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ai Weiwei's Button Up! is mounted across a single vast space at Aviva Studios, Manchester - REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja Ai Weiwei, I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

YouTuber and pet rescue advocate Rocky Kanaka and his wife, Kelly, are turning a stretch of farmland in Oceanside, California into Flip Farms, a working coffee farm and rehabilitation space for ...

Lingling Wei is the chief China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and author of the award-winning WSJ China newsletter. She covers China's political economy, focusing on the intersection of ...