Ai Weiwei first moved to New York City in the early 1980s to study at Parsons School of Design and the Art Students League, living in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side until 1993.

This fall, acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei will plant a major outdoor installation at New York’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, kicking off the park’s Art X Freedom ...

A new Ai Weiwei installation will cover Roosevelt Island in camouflage netting The artist’s first major NYC work since 2017 launches a new social justice-focused public art series at FDR Four ...

Ai Weiwei: ‘Child’s Play’ Vito Schnabel Gallery, 455 West 19th Street, 360 West 11th Street, New York City Through February 22, 2025. Ai Weiwei, known for his witty and conceptual nose-thumbing at ...

A steady, cold spring rain did not deter some 200 people from attending this morning's official opening of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads outdoor installation at Central ...

Opening just seven days after the famed Chinese artist's release from detention for alleged tax evasion in China, the Asia Society Museum exhibition Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993 received ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has designed a large-scale installation with camouflage netting for the launch of the Art X Freedom public art program on Roosevelt Island in New York City. The Camouflage ...

Brutality of oppression: Ai Weiwei speaks on Gaza, China and New York City ‘Speak your thoughts loudly and without considering the consequences,’ says the artist.

In more than 130 works, the artist’s largest ever exhibition in the U.S. reflects on his political engagement from the 1980s to today.

On the eve of its final weeks, Asia Society Museum's exhibition Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993 enjoys a major publicity boost today with a lengthy review in the New York Times, which calls ...

Ai Weiwei in front of “Water Lilies #2” (2022), a reinterpretation of Monet’s masterpiece made from Lego bricks, on view at his show “Know Thyself“ at Neugerriemschneider, Berlin.

Ai Weiwei will realize a new work in the Ukraine about the country's ongoing war with Russia. Titled Three Perfectly ...