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...Ai Weiwei has long used social media to shine a light on repressive governments and restrictions on free speech around the world....
...Several passionate artists and collectors made donations to help with the space, which opened in a warehouse in the same area on Beijing’s periphery where Ai Weiwei had started a gallery....
...In the CD booklet, they’re accompanied by artworks commissioned from artists including Ai Weiwei and Cornelia Parker. It’s a feast of an album — but it has also been overcooked....
...(Federation of American Scientists) — Ai Weiwei finds peace in Portugal (The Guardian) — The Texas Legislature is considering some absurdly evil environmental bills (Gizmodo) — How the Panama Papers rocked...
...A triptych by Ai Weiwei in the main hall depicts the Chinese artist dropping a Han Dynasty urn....
...The inaugural show Right Foot First — its title from a Hindu belief about crossing thresholds — shows works from Jindal’s art collection of 1998-2023, from Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei to Praneet Soi and Atul...
...The big cat depicted on Ai Weiwei’s interpretation of a Tibetan tiger rug is lying on its back, facing up – an inversion of the traditional woven wool design that dates back to the 19th century – its claws...
...Weiwei, Salvador Dalí, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francis Bacon....
...Effigies of food made from inedible materials are also a recurring theme in Chinese arts and crafts, from the clay peanuts scattered for amusement on a scholar’s tea table to Ai Weiwei’s porcelain sunflower...
...Described as a “chandelier”, though it casts no light, the work is the centrepiece of a new solo show in the church by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei....
...And finally This new exhibition at the Design Museum in Kensington draws on Ai Weiwei’s fascination with historical Chinese artefacts, placing their traditional craftsmanship in dialogue with the more recent...
...The artist Ai Weiwei responded with a gesture of poignant mourning covering the walls of the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2009: the 9,000 backpacks of “Remembering”, some of them spelling out in Mandarin...
...Tate is secretive about this annual installation until it’s revealed, making the most of public interest in a commission that has previously gone to the likes of Louise Bourgeois, Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei...
...Inventive use of screens and lighting included specially commissioned visuals by artists such as Cornelia Parker and Ai Weiwei....
...There is a roughly taped-up cardboard model of their “Bird’s Nest” stadium (designed with Ai Weiwei, who later disassociated himself from the project) for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and there is an exquisite...
...From 2008 it was Beijing, where he moved into the Caochangdi arts district established by his friend and contemporary Ai Weiwei....
...Herzog & De Meuron, working with Ai Weiwei in 2012, excavated the lawns of the pavilion site, unearthing the foundations and remains of previous structures, an intense subterranean palimpsest....
...Many of these blur the line between architecture and land art, including Andy Goldsworthy’s buried dome of oak branches and Ai Weiwei’s meandering stone roadway built of blue Marseille cobbles....
...Ai Weiwei will seemingly turn his hand to any medium....
...But since the architectural competition in 2012, culture in Hong Kong has been radically politicised, highlighted by the censoring of a work by Ai Weiwei....
...And in another typical Weiwei-ism, “Dragon Vase” (2017), Ai sets out to faithfully recreate a piece of red and white Ming porcelain....
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...Their six-storey home in the capital’s affluent Gulshan neighbourhood contains a mind-boggling collection, including works by contemporary artists such as Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor, Ai Weiwei and Chris Ofili...
...The opening show features work by, among others, Lubna Chowdhary, Rohini Devasher, Atul Dodiya, Shilpa Gupta, Bharti Kher, Annie Morris, Manu Parekh and Dayanita Singh, as well as Ai Weiwei and Andy Warhol...
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