Ai Weiwei on How Art Comes AliveFi ChurchmanArtReview10 January 2022The artist and human rights activist discusses the power of writing, the poetry of his father, and the artworld’s self-serving ideologies
Tasting Notes: Mince PiesFi ChurchmanArtReview22 December 2021A brief history of a humble little pastry
Shirin Neshat Builds a Land of DreamsFi ChurchmanArtReview Asia02 December 2021“Often, as artists, we worry too much about things making sense. I like the unbelievability of poetry and dreams”
Black Gold: Deana Lawson’s Portraits of Family, Beauty and PrideFi ChurchmanArtReview04 November 2021The artist’s photobooks challenge a Western art-history of portraiture to create ‘an ever-expanding mythological extended family’
Tasting Notes: Bairín BreacFi ChurchmanArtReview29 October 2021Before there was Halloween, there was Samhain, a time of year that Celts believed opened a doorway into the spirit world
Tasting Notes: Mid-Autumn MooncakesFi ChurchmanArtReview21 September 2021From the cosmic gods of Chinese folklore to aiding revolutionaries, past and present, finding hidden messages within the seasonal delicacy
