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‘Even sewing a button can be subversive’: Ai Weiwei opens vast new show in Manchester

The Chinese activist-artist's exhibition, titled ‘Button Up!’, at Factory International’s Aviva Studios also features a reenactment of his incarceration in 2011

Historic Tallinn Art Hall to reopen this November following €13m renovation

The kunsthalle in the Baltic capital will relaunch with a survey of modern and contemporary Estonian art after its five-year closure

A Palais de Tokyo for London? Hypha Studios to open major exhibition and studio space near Tate Modern

Opening to the public on 25 June, Hypha Gallery South Bank will feature 800 sq. m of gallery space

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New Banksy statue appears in central London

Banksy has confirmed, via his Instagram page, that the sculpture of a man with his face obscured by a flag is his work

‘The sharp perception only a woman can bring to observing other women’: Dorothy Bohm’s photographs go on show at Lee Miller’s former home

The exhibition at the UK’s Farleys House & Gallery brings together female-focused works by Bohm, who also helped get Miller’s work back into the spotlight

Club for working-class art professionals expands from London to northern England

Working Arts Club founder Meg Molloy says its growth is necessary since "class issues in the art world are systemic, not geographic”

‘Good people are being compelled to censor themselves’: exhibition of Black artists reinterpreting the US flag opens without key Dread Scott work

The artist was approached about including his seminal work in an exhibition at the University of Maryland’s Driskell Center, but ultimately it was not featured; he and the curators disagree on the reasons why