Why Ai Weiwei shipped 30 tonnes of buttons from Croydon to China
- Posted on January 20, 2026
- By The Times
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Why Ai Weiwei shipped 30 tonnes of buttons from Croydon to China
The dissident artist secretly sent the huge collection to the country he was exiled from: there, villagers crafted them into a monumental artwork commenting on an invasion in 1900
