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A new pavilion at the Serpentine Galleries in Hyde Park is now firmly established as a regular moment in London’s annual calendar. Provocative, thoughtful or both, the prestigious architectural commission has seen work by Zaha Hadid, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Gehry, Ai Weiwei and Sumayya Vally. Now the Lebanese/French architect Lina…

From neolithic tools to Monet in Lego, the artist contemplates the human freight of things made and of use – or useless – across millennia in a show that’s at once elegiac and affirmative

Ai Weiwei: Making Sense will be the artist’s biggest UK show in eight years.

As he eases into farmhouse life, the artist is preparing for an epic design show that will feature 200,000 spouts from broken teapots and jugs. He talks about Chinese might, western jealousy – and his urge to spend

Ai Weiwei recreates a masterpiece in 650,000 pieces, Picasso and Matisse as arty midwives and dog portraits you won’t find in a charity shop – all in your weekly dispatch

The work will go on show at the Design Museum next month

At London’s Design Museum, Ai Weiwei has revealed Water Lilies #1, a new Lego recreation of Claude Monet’s iconic painting. We explore the vast new work ahead of the Chinese artist’s major show at the museum, opening on 7 April 2023

Exclusive: 15-metre-long work made up of 650,000 Lego bricks to form part of artist’s biggest UK show in eight years

Inspired by a Dartmoor witch’s cauldron, Earth Spells features magnificent oddities, including a human-headed hen, while Super Natural, another south-west show, ties wisdom to the Earth, not least in Ai Weiwei’s tree root sculpture