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Ai Weiwei: Button Up! review – skeleton chandeliers, a real-life temple – and too much silly Lego

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Ai Weiwei: Button Up! review – skeleton chandeliers, a real-life temple – and too much silly Lego
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Aviva Studios, ManchesterThe artist’s latest show is a staggering takedown of colonial history, warfare and the migrant crisis, featuring buttons by the tonne and richly perfumed tea History has repeated itself all over Ai Weiwei’s vast exhibition of monumental sculpture in Manchester. The flags of long-lost nations hang from the ceiling, bronzes looted by dead empires have been recast and reclaimed, dilapidated ancient ruins have been rebuilt. Everywhere you look here, you will find death, expl

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