Ai Weiwei
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Asia’s pro-democracy activists surprisingly favour Trump over Biden
- Asia-Pacific
- December 1, 2020, 17:48
A dissident once branded Enemy No 1 by the Chinese Communist Party is spreading conspiracy theories about vote-rigging in the US presidential election(...)

Go with the grain: Unbeatable rice recipes, from pilafs to puddings
- Food & Drink
- May 25, 2020, 06:00
Rice is the blank canvas of the food world. As a side dish, it lets the flavours of the main dish shine through. It is rarely the principal attraction(...)

Stasi files catalogue tragedy and trauma of four toxic decades
- Europe
- November 6, 2019, 01:00
Some 30 years on, the files are still there. Locked away from the daylight in climate-controlled rooms, shelf after shelf of battered orange cardboard(...)

Chinese political cartoonist Badiucao on living in fear and revealing his identity
- Asia-Pacific
- August 6, 2019, 06:00
A prominent Chinese political cartoonist came out of the shadows lately and revealed his face for the first time, hoping the increased publicity would(...)

Aosdána functions as way of hiding fact that arts funding is shamefully low
- Music
- July 24, 2019, 05:00
Irish composer Jennifer Walshe has been elected to Germany’s Akademie der Künste, the Berlin-based academy of arts that was founded as long ago as 169(...)

Destination design: 10 hot spots to see in 2019
- Art & Design
- January 5, 2019, 00:00
V&A Dundee Scotland’s first design museum opened in September in a stunning building designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma that looks like se(...)

From Damien Hirst to Marcel Duchamp, what makes artists tick?
- Culture
- November 13, 2018, 05:00
Are artists different? Some lines from Thomas Kinsella are stuck in my mind: “I wonder whether one expects/ Flowing tie or expert sex …/ Of poets any (...)

Event of the Week: Brian Maguire – ‘War Changes its Address’
- Visual Art
- January 27, 2018, 05:00
War Changes its Address: The Aleppo Paintings Brian Maguire. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin; Until May 6th; imma.ie B(...)

Human Flow review: Migration crisis film is as epic as cinema gets
- Film
- January 4, 2018, 11:00
Shot in 23 countries over more than a year, the new magnificent, macrocosmic film from plucky Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei is as epic as cinema gets. (...)

What's a protest arts group backed by a rich Russian doing in Tallaght?
- Art & Design
- October 21, 2017, 06:00
In December 2000, the Spanish artist Santiago Sierra paid four people to have a line tattooed on their backs. As Sierra explained it: “Four prostitute(...)