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But walking into the Vito Schnabel Gallery, I was enthralled by the artist's playful repurposing of — of all things — Lego ...
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 ...
"Ai Weiwei's work thinks big: big politics, big history, big issues, big materials," said Charles Mudede in The Stranger. So it's fitting that the first U.S. exhibition of Ai's art in more than a ...
A vandal smashed up a sculpture by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei during the private opening of his exhibition in Italy. Footage from CCTV cameras – published on his Instagram account ...
Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel and artist Ai Weiwei with Observer’s Stephen Wozniak during a walkthrough of “Child’s Play” at Vito Schnabel Gallery. Photo by Stephen Wozniak At Vito ...
"Ai Weiwei will never explain his artwork. That's not something he does," said Foong Ping, SAM's curator of Chinese Art. She organized the 40 year retrospective into two parts. Part one is called ...
By Zoey Poll For part of the year, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei works in a cavernous 30,000-square-foot studio on the underground levels of a former 19th-century brewery in Berlin.
Languages: English. A sculpture created by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was smashed into pieces this week during its opening exhibition. Over the weekend, Ai showcased a new sculpture in the Italian ...
On Wednesday, the festival hosts the world premiere of Animality, the great Chinese artist's latest documentary. And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei's ...
And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, a film directed by Maxim Derevianko about the artist’s production of the classic Puccini opera.