Ai Weiwei Button Up!

History, power and empire collide in Button Up! – a major new exhibition from the world-leading artist and activist Ai Weiwei Monumental in scale and ambition, Ai Weiwei: Button Up! confronts 200 years of turbulent world history in this vast new exhibition, the artist’s most expansive in the North to date. Ai Weiwei is known around the world for his uncompromising artistic vision and political activism. From a brutal childhood in exile to surviving secret detention in China, his remarkable life and career have led him to global prominence. Using sculpture, installation, film, photography and architecture, his work is unafraid to ask urgent, critical questions. In Button Up!, the artist turns