In the documentary, ‘Ai Weiwei’s Turandot’, screening at Hot Docs 2025, revolutionary artist Ai Weiwei takes his first steps in making an opera.

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 ...

Maxim Derevianko’s “ Ai Weiwei ’s Turandot” has been picked up by Berlin-based doc specialist Rise and Shine World Sales, ahead of its international premiere on March 21 in the Highlights ...

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has said he “would like” to return to his home country if the state does not put him in “jail secretly again”.

Gareth Harris The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is headed to the Design Museum in London this spring with a major new show unveiling works drawing on the Covid-19 pandemic. Three toilet ...

Ai has teamed up with the company Avant Arte, providing a platform called Middle Finger where participants can superimpose Ai Weiwei’s outstretched arm over various searchable locations. Users ...

Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei will be on display at Seattle Art Museum March 12–September 7.

Dissident Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is taking heart from recent public protests in China over the authorities’ strict COVID-19 policy ...

The big cat depicted on Ai Weiwei’s interpretation of a Tibetan tiger rug is lying on its back, facing up – an inversion of the traditional woven wool design that dates back to the 19th ...

Ai Weiwei premieres two films at CPH:DOX: “Animality” and “Ai Weiwei’s Turandot,” a behind-the-scenes look at his radical opera production.