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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 https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/03/even-sewing-a-button-can-be-subversive-ai-weiwei-weaves-stories-of-colonialism-and-exile-into-vast-new-manchester-show