Ai Weiwei

With tens of thousands of pro-democracy, anti-monarchy protestors on the streets, should the second Bangkok Art Biennale have opened?

Watch the artist in conversation with Ken Roth (Human Rights Watch) about art and activism

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‘I am fortunate that I don't have to think about art all the time‘

In further news: Daniel Buren painting slashed at Paris’s Centre Pompidou; Ai Weiwei protests Haus der Kunst’s layoffs

In further news: Ai Weiwei wins court case against VW; proposal for Boston slave auction block memorial withdrawn

The artwork, which features 3,500 life jackets, was used to advertise an orange VW Polo

The artist alleges that the Cities of Love franchise cut his section to avoid upsetting the Chinese government ahead of a planned project in Shanghai 

Lu’s detention has elicited moderate international concern, in stark contrast to the general indifference to the targeting of Uyghur artists in the region

In further news: Strasbourg Biennale postponed after shootings; Ai Weiwei’s human rights flag

With the increased telling of refugee stories the film industry may claim to be listening, but the real power remains in the editorial chair

What a brief history of creative destruction reveals about the Sotheby’s shredding stunt

The dissident artist has posted a series of videos on Instagram documenting diggers demolishing his studio in the Songzhuang district

Cate Blanchett prepares her best Marina Abramović impression; fake rabbi in Renoir heist; and Ai Weiwei declares, ‘I am a cow’: all the latest in art world silliness

‘I am for free Pussy Riot,’ the performance artist says, in solidarity with jailed members of the Russian punk-feminist collective

‘You can’t reason with him but you can ridicule him’ – lightweight as it is, Trump Baby is a win for art as a legitimate form of protest

In further news: the future of Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building uncertain; Ai Weiwei returns to eBay

The rapper and artist have thoughts about originality in art; Melania Trump tries graphic design – all the latest art world nonsense

In further news: New York art project fights mass incarceration with house music; Marcia Hafif passes away at 89

The Chinese dissident artist has justified posing with politician Alice Weidel, who has branded immigrants ‘illiterate’