here & now

The venerable Tate Modern in London just confirmed rumours that our cover star Ai Weiwei has been commissioned as the 11th artist ever to show in the giant Turbine Hall at London’s South Bank this autumn. It’s something akin to winning the Oscar and another giant step in Weiwei’s mysterious career, which only really began in 2004 with his first exhibition in Switzerland. Considering the eternal quest for the ‘next hot thing‘, it’s really comforting that someone like Weiwei could still find his place in the art world, even at an unusually late stage in his life. Anyway, we’re really looking forward to the Turbine Hall smelling of Chinese cooking and maybe now even the bookstore at Tate can finally be persuaded to sell mono.kultur…