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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 · Apr 7, 2023

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 · Apr 6, 2023

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 · Apr 5, 2023

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

Wallpaper · Mar 20, 2023

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 · Mar 20, 2023

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 · Feb 23, 2023

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.

Evening Standard · Jan 30, 2023

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.

The Independent UK · Jan 30, 2023

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.

The Independent UK · Jan 30, 2023

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.

The Conversation · Jan 24, 2023