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Ai Weiwei

January 2024

  • Ai Weiwei

    Take in a sunset, a snowstorm or a baby’s cry, and see why AI is no threat to art

    Ai Weiwei
  • Ai Weiwei in a park

    Art that can be easily copied by AI is ‘meaningless’, says Ai Weiwei

November 2023

  • Ai Weiwei

    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

July 2023

  • Lucie Rie, Buttons, 1940s.

    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’

April 2023

  • Ai Weiwei’s Coloured House, 2013 at the Design Museum.

    Ai Weiwei: Making Sense review – horror, playfulness and delight

  • ‘Britain is vibrating. I’m too old for that’ … Ai Weiwei at the site near Lisbon where he is re-creating his Shanghai studio, which was demolished.

    Ai Weiwei finds peace in Portugal: ‘I could throw away all my art and not feel much’

March 2023

  • Woman looking at Ai Weiwei’s re-imagining of Monet's Water Lilies.

    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

December 2022

  • Yayoi Kusama, Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and a gilded mummy of ancient Egypt.

    2023 culture preview
    The best art and design shows to visit in 2023

  • Ximei

    Ximei review – Ai Weiwei produces inspiring portrait of Chinese Aids activist

September 2022

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    Ai Weiwei says mother, 90, warns him against China return

    Artist and activist tells event in London he is not clear in own mind about whether struggles for freedom were ‘worth it’

February 2022

  • A conservator from the State Musuem of Prehistory in Halle, Germany, holds the Nebra Sky Disc, the world's oldest map of the stars, as it is prepared for display The world of Stonehenge at the British Museum.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Cosmic Stonehenge secrets, Ai Weiwei looks back, and gay sex 11,000 years ago – the week in art

    The British Museum introduces Europe’s earliest ancestors, the activist artist sits his work next to Chinese antiquities and LGBT+ history month begins with the deep human past – all in your weekly dispatch
  • ‘Another brilliant act of antiquity abuse’ … Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo, 2014.

    Ai Weiwei: The Liberty of Doubt review – so dull and sentimental it’s offensive

    The iconoclast’s opposition to the Chinese state has been admirably brave. But this edgeless, confused and mawkish show suggests his art is less so
  • Ai Weiwei,

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Ai Weiwei: ‘I am like a cat. Cats can play for a whole day’

    As his new show opens in Cambridge, the artist reflects on his interest in fakes, why he’d love to go home, and the fate of the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai

November 2021

  • Peng Shuai in action at the China Open in 2019

    China’s disappeared: high-profile figures who have gone missing in the past decade

    Peng Shuai is latest in long line of artists, officials and celebrities to have vanished in recent years
  • Ai Weiwei.

    Book of the day
    1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei – an assault on the censors

    The memoirs of the artist branded a troublemaker by the Chinese regime are also a powerful tribute to his father
  • Artist and activist Ai Weiwei

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Book of the Week; Start the Week; Promenade and more

    Ai Weiwei on life and punishment in China; the true meaning of freedom; memories triggered by small moments; and podcasts for Succession addicts

October 2021

  • Ai Weiwei at his home in Portugal: ‘Once you don’t have a place to go, you can go anywhere’.

    Ai Weiwei: ‘It is so positive to be poor as a child. You understand how vulnerable our humanity can be’

  • Ai Weiwei

    Observer book of the week
    1,000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei review – a life of dissent

  • Diane Weyermann with Ai Weiwei

    Ai Weiwei on the death of Diane Weyermann: ‘Like a bridge of hope washed away in the storm’

  • composite of elaborate cakes, with a Hamish Blake creation

    Internet wormhole
    Everything is cake: how increasingly elaborate decorative baking became an online obsession

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