Ai Weiwei designs footprint flag as a symbol for human rights
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has designed a light blue flag with a white footprint, to raise awareness about the importance of human rights. More
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Ai Weiwei's Beijing studio demolished by Chinese authorities
Artist and activist Ai Weiwei took to Instagram to show Chinese authorities knocking down his studio in Beijing, with many of his artworks still inside. More
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Ai Weiwei protests border walls with huge New York installations
Chinese artist and human-rights activist Ai Weiwei has used metal fencing to create three monumental structures, in a campaign against Donald Trump's border-control measures. More
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Ai Weiwei launches Kickstarter to build security-fence installations in New York
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is crowdsourcing funds to erect more than 300 artworks based on themes of immigration, division and borders, in locations across New York City. More
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Artists including Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei create magazine covers dedicated to recent London tragedies
Wolfgang Tillmans, Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei are among the six artists that have designed covers for ES Magazine celebrating the "resilience of London" in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire and recent terror attacks. More
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Drones stalk visitors to Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei's Park Avenue Armory installation
The movements of visitors navigating this installation, by architects Herzog & de Meuron and artist Ai Weiwei, are tracked by drones and played back to them – in a comment on surveillance in public spaces. More
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Chinese government sees architectural discussion as "dangerous" threat, says Ai Weiwei
China's "fatalist" government is causing the country's architectural profession to stagnate, according to artist and political activist Ai Weiwei. More
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Ai Weiwei creates lotus-like installation from refugee life jackets
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has arranged 1,005 life jackets from refugees into the shape of lotus flowers for a floating installation in Vienna (+ slideshow). More
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Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion paid homage to its predecessors
Movie: in the next instalment of our exclusive video series, gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones explains why Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei dug into the ground to create their 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. More
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Ai Weiwei installs monstrous sculptures at Le Bon Marché to "speak to our inner child"
Artist Ai Weiwei has used traditional Chinese kite-making techniques to create mythological characters and creatures for windows, atriums and the gallery at Paris department store Le Bon Marché (+ slideshow). More
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Ai Weiwei's first jewellery collection is cut from a rod of gold rebar
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has partnered with a London jewellery gallery to create "wearable sculptures" designed to look like reinforcing bars used in construction (+ slideshow). More
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Ai Weiwei appeals to public after Lego refuses to provide bricks for "political" work
Danish toy brand Lego, which has built a fan base among architects and designers with its colourful building bricks, has been accused of "censorship" by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei after refusing to supply an order for an exhibition in Australia. More
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Ai Weiwei's Forever Bicycles installed at Palazzo Franchetti in Venice
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: a monumental installation of interconnected bicycle frames by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been installed in the riverside courtyard of Palazzo Franchetti in Venice. More
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Slideshow: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
Slideshow: here are some photos by Julien Lanoo of this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, including more pictures of the cork-covered interior plus dusky night shots.
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Movie: Ai Weiwei on the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Movie: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was unable to attend last week's opening of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion that he designed in collaboration with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron so he made this movie about the project instead. More
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Movie: Jacques Herzog at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Movie: earlier today, Jacques Herzog of architects Herzog & de Meuron gave us an exclusive, impromptu tour of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which opens tomorrow in London. More
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
Here are some photographs of the completed 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, which opens to the public in London tomorrow. More
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
The press preview of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei is today. See some photos of this morning's preparations on our Facebook page.
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
The Serpentine Gallery in London has unveiled plans by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for this summer's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion: they'll conduct an archaeological dig to find traces of past pavilions on the site then line the resulting trenches with cork. More
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Ai Weiwei documentary screening in Berlin
Dezeen Wire: a documentary about controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei filmed by American journalist Alison Klayman is now screening at the Berlin International Film Festival. The movie follows the artist from 2009, when he was preparing for the Sunflower Seeds installation at Tate Modern, up until his release from 81 days of detention. More
