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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei awarded global arts prize valued at more than £90,000

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has spoken about the right to “freedom of expression” as he was awarded a global arts prize valued at more than £90,000. He has been named the 2022 sculpture laureate of the Praemium Imperiale prize by the Japan ...

15 Sept 2022 at 14:11

New Ai Weiwei Design Museum exhibition to feature never-seen-before works

A new exhibition by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei is set to open at London’s Design Museum which will feature pieces that have never been displayed before. Launching on April 7, Ai Weiwei: Making Sense will be the artist’s biggest UK show ...

04 Apr 2023 at 23:16

Ai Weiwei ‘would like’ to return to China as long as he is not detained again

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has said he “would like” to return to his home country if the state does not put him in “jail secretly again”. The 65-year-old, who worked on the design of Beijing’s Olympic stadium and filled a hall in the ...

05 Apr 2023 at 14:24

Life

Ai Weiwei: Censorship is ‘suffocating’ Chinese creativity

Visual artist Ai Weiwei says censorship in his homeland of China is “suffocating” creativity. Ai’s work is all about speaking truth to power. This includes the Remembering, an installation dedicated to those who lost their lives in the ...

19 Jul 2023 at 09:00

Ai Weiwei: Censorship in West ‘exactly the same’ as in Mao Zedong’s China

Political censorship in the West today is “exactly the same” as it was in China under leader Mao Zedong, artist Ai Weiwei has said. The 66-year-old told Sky’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips that “society becomes so timid, to ...

04 Feb 2024 at 06:00

Ai Weiwei, skateboards and saris in Design Museum’s 2023 programme

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei is to present his work as a commentary on design and what it reveals about our changing values in a new exhibition at the Design Museum in London next year. Titled Ai Weiwei: Making Sense, the ...

06 Sept 2022 at 11:00

World

Dissident artist Ai Weiwei says Chinese protests will not alter regime

Dissident Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is taking heart from recent public protests in China over the authorities’ strict Covid-19 policy – but admits he does not see them bringing about any significant political ...

07 Dec 2022 at 15:13

Artist Ai Weiwei to launch first design-focused exhibition at Design Museum

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei is to take over London’s Design Museum with his first installation using design and history as a lens through which to consider what we value. Hundreds of thousands of objects, which ...

30 Jan 2023 at 09:10

Ai Weiwei on exhibiting 30-year collection from Stone Age tools to Lego bricks

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has said his forthcoming collection-based exhibition at the Design Museum in London tells more of a story about the past and present than any antique. Hundreds of thousands of ...

30 Jan 2023 at 17:50

World

Man smashes Ai Weiwei sculpture at exhibition opening in Italy

A man smashed a sculpture by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei during the private opening of his exhibition in the northern Italian city of Bologna, in an act of vandalism that the show’s curator described ...

24 Sept 2024 at 13:31

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