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Last chance to see: Ai Weiwei at the Design Museum, London
Ai Weiwei digs deep into design history, gathering everything from Neolithic tools to Lego bricks for his new show at London’s Design Museum. We visit him at home in Portugal for a preview
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Ai Weiwei's largest-ever Lego artwork revealed at London’s Design Museum
At London’s Design Museum, Ai Weiwei has unveiled 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 until 30 July
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Ai Weiwei’s limited-edition cover for Wallpaper* explores surveillance, free speech, and humour as activism
Ai Weiwei takes over the limited-edition cover of the April 2023 issue of Wallpaper*. Ahead of the artist's major Design Museum show on 7 April, we explore the story behind the cover
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Ai Weiwei to sign blank sheets of paper with UV ink for Refugees International in London this weekend
To mark Human Rights Day (10 December 2022), Ai Weiwei will take to Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park to sign sheets of A4 paper in UV ink, distributed free. We interview the artist to find out more
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Tomorrow’s Tigers: new rugs by Ai Weiwei, Peter Doig and more set for roaring success in charity exhibition
Including new designs by Ai Weiwei, Peter Doig, Kiki Smith, and Anish Kapoor, Tomorrow’s Tigers 2022 is a major fundraising project benefitting WWF
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From captive to captivator: the RA's Tim Marlow recalls his adventures with Ai Weiwei
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Ai Weiwei supporters flock to Lego collection points
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Wall of fame: Serpentine Galleries and Maharam deliver works of art by the roll
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The inaugural Venice Glass Week celebrates the beating heart of the city
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Major renovation: Helsinki Art Museum reopens with blockbuster Ai Weiwei show
The Helsinki Art Museum has reopened after a major renovation with a blockbuster show from Chinese artist Ai Weiwei
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2013: The Florida fair steps out of the shadows of its Swiss sibling
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Art or machinery? L’Art et la Machine opens in Lyon
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Ai Weiwei transforms Paris’ Le Bon Marché into a visual playground
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012, by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
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Interview: at home with Ai Weiwei
In our ongoing interview profile series, we hear about what artists are making, what’s making them tick, and the moments that made them. As Ai Weiwei releases his long-awaited memoir, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, we revisit our June 2021 interview with the artist
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World of dissent: Ai Weiwei's Royal Academy retrospective
The five years since Ai Weiwei unveiled his installation of porcelain Sunflower Seeds at Tate Modern have been truly momentous times for the Chinese artist. Not only was that the last time he had a passport and was free to travel to one of his own shows (he has had maybe 100 in the intervening period), but his world-famous name has barely been whispered in his own country since. Yet his homeland provides much of the impetus and thematic content for a major Royal Academy exhibition.
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Ai Weiwei unveils first-ever exhibition of glass sculptures in Venice
On the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Ai Weiwei unveils his first show of glass works, including one of the largest Murano glass sculptures ever
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Wearable sculpture: Ai Weiwei’s gold jewellery offering at Elisabetta Cipriani gallery
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Then and now: four decades of Chinese art at ArtisTree, Hong Kong
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In the clink: Artangel encourages artists and writers to go Wilde at Reading Prison
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Grand statements: Ai Weiwei unveils new works at Athens’ Cycladic Art Museum
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Ai Weiwei and Suchi Reddy design minimalist home in Salt Point
Ai Weiwei and Suchi Reddy collaborate on an angular, linear and minimalist extension to an existing weekend residence in Salt Point, NY
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Game-Changers: we pick our top 20 creative world-rockers
In 20 remarkable years we have come across, written about, examined and exhumed a lot of remarkable people. On the following profiles are 20 of them. This, though, is not a simple ranking of power and influence. These are stories that resonate, with which we find common purpose and cause. Here are people who have sometimes stuck bloody-mindedly to a course, sometimes pivoted, re-examined and pushed in new directions, who have defied expectations and even open derision. They have shown courage under fire and grace under pressure. They have transformed – from girl group popette to one of the fashion industry's smartest operators, for instance – and, over the last 20 years, have had a transformative influence in their field. Here are architects who build with a sense of the immaterial, artists who want to talk to everyone, experimentalists and food engineers, fashion designers who defy fashion and bob and weave like prize fighters, tech titans who have changed the way we do almost everything. One reinvented the hotel industry, another presents it with an existential threat. There is also a man who wants to save the world – or take us all to Mars if that doesn't work out. Either way, we'll be along for the ride.
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Under construction: Pérez Art Museum Miami by Herzog & de Meuron
