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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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 - AU

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

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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

‘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

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

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’

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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

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

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

Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Air to Beef

All the cultural highlights for Easter weekend

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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’

The Independent UK

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

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