So it's fitting that the first U.S. exhibition of Ai's art in more than a decade is also the biggest yet. More than 130 of ...

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 ...

You might expect a world-famous artist like Ai Weiwei — who has poked critically at value systems and institutions for decades with his provocative, interrogating art — to be more bombastic.

In 2011, Chinese authorities secretly detained Ai Weiwei. And while in detention, the artist thought often about his father, how incomplete his understanding of his father was and how much he ...

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 ...

World-famous Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has received a new item of merchandise from Ukrainska Pravda – a T-shirt featuring his own illustration of Don Quixote, the symbol of UP. The artist ...

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is posing wide-ranging questions of artificial intelligence—and the public at large—via his latest installation, Ai v. AI. The installation—currently on ...

Exiled Chinese dissident and renowned artist Ai Weiwei is known for challenging authoritarian politics through his work, and was even detained in China for 81 days on charge of state subversion ...

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 ...

But one man who snuck into an Ai Weiwei exhibition in Italy on Friday was clearly planning to cause a scene when he toppled a porcelain sculpture by the Chinese dissident artist. The man destroyed ...

"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 ...