Antique wood is one of Ai Weiwei’s signature materials. As in many of Ai’s works, his repurposing of traditional objects into new, surreal forms destroys their original function but also confers a new ...

The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei (March 12–Sept. 7) includes 130 works — a mix of sculpture, video, painting, wallpaper, furniture, and installation — that cover Ai’s creative progression ...

In the documentary Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, the multi-disciplinary artist known for his architecture, installations and sculptures, takes his first steps into opera, an artistic medium he’s never ...

Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio After learning his father ... the sorts of visual diagrams that might be included in an Ikea furniture kit. “The interesting thing is everything has a name, every ...

“I’m like a shattered mirror,” the artist Ai Weiwei tells W one morning in a cozy corner of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), where he’s mounting his first U.S. retrospective in over a decade.