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Ai Weiwei is free to travel again




Ai Weiwei brings heavy artwork ‘Straight’ to London

installing 90 Tons of Steel at London’s Royal Academy of Arts the exhibition opens on September 19th.


https://news.artnet.com/in-brief/ai-weiwei-london-royal-academy-308449

published by Amah-Rose Abrams

June, 17th 2015

on artnetnews





The Art of Dissent

Ai Weiwei and Jacob Appelbaum collaborate on an art project. 

A film by  Laura Poitras

posted on June, 9th 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/opinion/the-art-of-dissent.html?_r=1





Ai Weiwei first-ever solo exhibition in China

Still being barred from leaving the country and after a series of remote exhibition making Ai Weiwei chooses a subtle approach in his first solo art show named ‘Ai Weiwei’  in China

http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/ai-weiwei-solo-exhibition-china-beijing/?_r=1


posted by Amy Qin

June, 8th 2015 

on Sinosphere, The New York Times





Ai Weiwei gives an interview




Ai Weiwei along with Joan Baez is honored by Amnesty International

Since Ai Weiwei is still banned from leaving China his six year old son Ai Lao went onstage in Berlin last Thursday to receive the award on behalf of his father.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/22/joan-baez-ai-weiwei-amnesty-international

published May, 22nd 2015

by Nadja Sayej

The Guardian





With his passport still confiscated, Ai Weiwei is into film making remotely




Why, according to Ai Weiwei, Lego is a perfect tool for dissent

http://de.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2014/october/30/what-ai-weiwei-told-the-new-yorker/

During an online conversation with  Evan Osnos from the New Yorker Ai Weiwei explains why he admires Andy Warhol, how he uses Lego bricks and how the Internet became his country.

published November 2014

on Phaidon Club





River crabs gone wild: Ai Weiwei’s He Xie- a sea of porcelain crabs in Blenheim Palace

Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, UK from 1 October to 14 December 2014

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/26/ai-weiwei-among-greats-opulence-blenheim

published on September, 26th 2014

by Jonathan Jones

The Guardian





@Large: Aiweiwei’s new art show in Alcatraz

opening on September 27th his new art show in the former prison is featuring Lego models of 175 prisoners of conscience from Edward Snowden to Nelson Mandela and a giant rainbow dragon

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/24/ai-weiwei-alcatraz-lego-extraordinary

published September 24th, 2014

by Jason Farago

in The Guardian





Ai Weiwei on his new art installation: @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz

http://www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz/

including a video interview with Ai Weiwei

posted on Art in  the Parks





Ai Weiwei’s essay on self-censorship




Ai Weiwei- Legs up!




Ai Weiwei gives an interview to BBC hardtalk

“If you let the people have the voting ticket, I’ll shut up.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3cstlkr





Ai Weiwei erased from art show in Shanghai