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The Offbeat Sari: Design Museum’s beautiful new exhibition charts the power of the sari

The UK’s first dedicated sari show explores the garment’s modern reinvention

Evening Standard

Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Air to Beef

All the cultural highlights for Easter weekend

The Independent UK

Ai Weiwei, Design Museum review: The master provocateur creates timeless beauty from historical objects

The exiled Chinese artist turns his industrial-scale collecting into sinister yet quietly moving, meditative works in Making Sense

The Independent UK

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Ai Weiwei finds peace in Portugal: ‘I could throw away all my art and not feel much’

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

The Guardian - UK

Ai Weiwei has made a giant version of Monet’s Water Lilies out of Lego... and it’s coming to London

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

Evening Standard

Ai Weiwei's largest-ever Lego artwork revealed at London’s Design Museum

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

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Artist Ai Weiwei to launch ‘long overdue’ first design-focused exhibition

The exhibition, opening in April, will feature hundreds of thousands of objects collected by the Chinese artist, from Stone Age tools to Lego bricks.

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Artist Ai Weiwei to launch first design-focused exhibition at Design Museum

The exhibition, opening in April, will feature hundreds of thousands of objects collected by the Chinese artist, from Stone Age tools to Lego bricks.

The Independent UK

The best free art exhibitions in London: enjoy culture without breaking the bank

Discover the top free exhibitions in London to experience the city's vibrant cultural scene without breaking the bank

Evening Standard

‘Fashion revolution’: show explores sari’s modern reinvention

Design Museum exhibition to feature more than 90 saris, including first one ever worn to Met Ball

The Guardian - UK

Design museum takes tainted Sackler name off its library

The DESIGN Museum in Kensington has quietly removed the Sackler name from its library, becoming one of the last London institutions to distance itself from the American US philanthropic family.

Evening Standard

The Turner prize heads to Merseyside and sofas get sexy – the week in art

Tate Liverpool opens its Turner prize exhibition, the Design Museum hosts a new show on surrealism and the pre-Raphaelites decode a mythic king – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Baz Luhrmann launches new campaign inspiring everyone to be creative

The campaign invites people to capture and share on social media what they see in the world that creatively inspires them

Wales Online

Objects of Desire review – surreal lobster phones and a seaside sleazorama

A lamp in the form of a life-size horse, a chair made of soft toys, a lips settee begging to be bonked on – this delightful orgy of bad taste highlights perverse surrealist design from Dalí to today

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Yinka Ilori: Parables for Happiness review – the brighter the better

Flamingo-pink playgrounds, morale-boosting billboards… the designer transforms places with bold, playful colour, as explored in a new show

The Guardian - UK

Utopian cities, medieval manuscripts and a queen in mourning – the week in art

One of Britain’s earliest artworks goes on show in Newcastle while the Design Museum is looking to the future and there are surreal sculptures in London

Evening Standard

Things to do in London this bank holiday weekend (September 16-19)

How to spend your weekend in the capital

The Independent UK

Ai Weiwei, skateboards and saris in Design Museum’s 2023 programme

The Ai Weiwei: Making Sense exhibition will run from April 7 to July 30.

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The Guardian - UK

Yinka Ilori’s patterns and designs to be celebrated at London Design Museum

Free exhibition will include some of creative’s architectural projects and draw from his west African roots

Evening Standard

Need to know: What to do and see in London this week 22nd - 28th July 2022

From Jack White’s return and partying at Alexandra Palace, to The Tempest at the Globe, things are hotting up (again) in London

The Guardian - UK

London exhibition to examine surrealism’s influence on design

Design Museum show to look at how movement revolutionised arts from furniture to fashion

The Independent UK

Design Museum to explore story of Surrealism in landmark exhibition

Highlights include pieces by Salvador Dali and Dior.

Evening Standard

Recycled hair and wearable furniture on show at the Design Museum

Wearable furniture and the recycling potential of human hair all feature in a new exhibition at the Design Museum.

The Guardian - UK

Look to your laurels: 70 years of the Fred Perry polo shirt

Since 1952, the tennis star’s design has been worn across cultures and generations. Now a Design Museum exhibition relives its rich cultural history

Evening Standard

The best free exhibitions in London right now – get your culture fix and keep your money for coffee

Want to have a fun day out but also save those pennies? These free London art exhibitions are the perfect solution

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