This major survey of the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei – the first in the UK – presents his most important works from the last two decades. The exhibition also includes several large-scale installations created for the Royal Academy’s galleries and courtyards.

Ai Weiwei in his studio in Beijing, taken in April 2015 Photo (c) Harry Pearce/Pentagram, 2015
Podcast
The Masterpiece podcast: episode three
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
Making art behind bars can be its own form of release