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Brown's bday: Mayor to mark 80th with champagne, band and a 's***load of mates"
3+ week, 6+ day ago (307+ words) Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is gearing up to celebrate his 80th birthday this weekend. Brown, who was elected mayor in 2022 and re-elected for a second term last year, told Ryan Bridge TODAY he plans to mark the milestone with a champagne-laden…...
When Ai Weiwei (Nearly) Met Andy Warhol | NGV | Broadsheet Melbourne
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (973+ words) Words by Will Cox · Updated on 13 Apr 2017 · Published on 11 Dec 2015 Ai Weiwei can’t be sure, because everybody in the room is an imposter – but he thinks that might be Andy Warhol. When Ai Weiwei was growing up in Communist China,…...
Ai Weiwei Selected for 2026 Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (243+ words) ArtAsiaPacific Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) has selected Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei to create a new public artwork for the second edition of the Neil Balnaves Tallawoladah Lawn Commission. The project is set to be unveiled…...
Ai Weiwei will unveil a new public sculpture at Sydney's MCA in September
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (294+ words) One of the world's most influential contemporary artists is returning to Australia. Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has been commissioned to create a new sculpture for the lawn outside Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), set to be unveiled…...
Why watching Ai Weiwei eat, sleep, and pace is more interesting than it sounds
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (648+ words) I wouldn’t usually watch a man slowly pace a room for forty minutes. But what’s ‘usual’ seems entirely irrelevant when that man is Ai Weiwei, one of the most famous contemporary artists in the world. Much of his 24-hour live…...
REVIEW - Ai Weiwei: Sewing a Button
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (285+ words) If art is a weapon, then the corollary of such a statement is that it is also a weapon which can be used against the artist. Such was the case with Ai Weiwei who was imprisoned by the Chinese authorities…...
Ai Weiwei’s latest spectacle is a coup for Manchester - but it’s also a warning
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (844+ words) The Chinese artist and activist has taken over Manchester's Aviva Studios with his largest site-specific exhibition to date A quote from George Santayana’s book The Life of Reason feels pertinent right now. “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed…...
Artist and activist Ai Weiwei talks 'On Censorship' essay
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (99+ words) WCMU Public Media Artist and activist Ai Weiwei talks 'On Censorship' essay Acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei has often encountered censorship and surveillance throughout his career. Earlier this year, he published an extended essay “On Censorship.” Here & Now‘s…...
‘Even sewing a button can be subversive’: Ai Weiwei opens vast new show in Manchester
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (77+ words) The artist in front of the new, large-scale commission History of Bombs Installation view of the exhibition in Aviva Studio's The Warehouse The dissident artist argues that restrictions manifest more subtly in Europe and the US Toy maker has refused…...
Ai Weiwei’s largest ever site-specific exhibition is in Manchester and it’s breathtaking
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (813+ words) By Lucy Holt, 3 July 2026 Arts & Culture ⸱ Galleries Ai Weiwei is one of the world’s most famous contemporary artists. His latest exhibition – the biggest the North has ever seen – is called Ai Weiwei: Button Up!, and it’s just landed at the…...