My weekly round up of links is back. Sorry if you missed it last week.
- Ai Weiwei risks everything to give an interview to the FT. Prepare for some vicarious paranoia.
- Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal visits Tracey Emin. A nice portrait, but you cannot help comparing artist-governmental relations with Ai (via Art Observed).
- David Shrigley tells Phaidon how he posts eight hour days, six days a week. Although his work could not look easier, he explains it is really hard work.
- In the New York Times, Roberta Smith gives Cindy Sherman her dues but explains how organisers of her show at MoMA “blinkedâ€.
- Ever-interesting blog We Make Money Not Art offers a quick guide to the urgent, confrontational work of Santiago Sierra.
- Slideshow of the week goes to the Smithson, who pull together seven famous photographers who worked with Polaroids.
- “Absence of density†was my one reservation about Yayoi Kusama at Tate. So I was glad to read this review in which Beverley Knowles defends it.
- Animal NY get a bit upset about a machine for aging books. It is not as bad as burning them, but still.
- The Japan Times review the English translation of Land, the Korean answer to War and Peace which runs to almost 1,200 pages.
- Also on a Far Eastern tip, part one of David Blandy’s anime series ANJIN 1600 can now be seen online at Animate Projects.