Tag: Ai Weiwei

  • Ai Weiwei: Making Sense

    Ai has a genius for incorporating pieces of everyday design into his work as a form of protest at government oppression and corruption, or as a means of questioning our cultural fixations. And where better to parade that talent than…

  • Super Natural

    Tune in to being a tree, explore the world through the ‘eyes’ of a potato … Rather than dwelling on our devastation of plant life and biodiversity, this exhilarating show offers constructive ways to connect with nature

  • Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

    Premiered at the Glastonbury Festival, Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly is a moving and powerful documentary about the horror of political imprisonment, offering insights into the artist’s own struggles and those faced by freedom fighters across the world

  • Barbara Pollack – interview: ‘You don’t have to be Ai Weiwei to be a successful Chinese artist with an international presence’

    The writer and curator talks about the impact of the enormous social, economic, and political changes in China on the post-Cultural Revolution generation of artists, including the seven she features in her new show at the Asia Society      

  • Ai Weiwei: The Liberty of Doubt

    This exhibition may be small, but it still packs a powerful punch as Ai Weiwei mixes up his work and others’, the ancient with the modern, the fake with the authentic, and the playful with the provocative

  • Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel

    Jean Nouvel has conceived a masterful new structure for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, at once utterly modern in its technical and environmental specifications, but beautifully attuned to the ancient Arabic sense of place, and affinities with geometry and astronomy

  • Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World

    The curatorial mission, to showcase the influence on artists and their practice of two distinct moments of political impact – the Tiananmen Square crackdown and the failed promise of the 2008 Beijing Olympics – upends our understanding of the modern…

  • Ai Weiwei: ‘It’s about humanity’

    Ai Weiwei is showing at four New York City galleries simultaneously. To mark this, Royal Academy America hosted an informal event at which Ai talked to members and the general public about his work and his mission

  • Zhao Zhao: ‘You cannot separate art from politics’

    A prominent member of the post-1980s generation of Chinese artists and a former assistant of Ai Wewei, the Beijing artist talks about his visually stunning, anti-authoritarian and provocative work. Lilly Wei talked to the artist in his Beijing studio in…

  • Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison

    Since it was founded in 1985, cultural organisation Artangel has made a name for itself staging exhibitions in headline-grabbing locations. Its latest show brings a cast of literary and art-world heavyweights to the cells, corridors and chapel of HM Prison…