Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

Ai Weiwei - Royal Academy - London
Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei - Royal Academy - London

Several years in the planning and informed significantly by the artist's parallel discipline of architecture, this ambitious show was designed remotely during Ai's lengthy "grounding" at the hands of the Chinese government. As his growing profile ensured that difficult works such as those focusing on the avoidable casualties in 2008's Sichuan earthquake would be noted globally, Ai endured incarceration and the confiscation of his passport. A fortuitous recent restoration of the artists papers has enabled his personal involvement in this current installation. The scale, both physical and conceptual, of Weiwei's activities is hugely impressive. Works range from playful quip to crushing testament and demonstrate a ferocious will to bear witness. Indeed, if there is a consistent theme here it is one of material as witness. Conceptual works have forever been lambasted as the final frontier of rarified first world indulgence. This show should recast even the most hardened cynic's scorn. These works of undeniable aesthetic presence and deftness of touch are invariably amplified by their rigorous conceptual underpinnings. Until the 13th of December.