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. But in a ...

Visitors to the beloved Steam Room dry cleaners in Haggerston, the U.K., are being welcomed by a new work by Ai Weiwei, celebrating the Lunar New Year. The screen print, titled Guardian (2024), has ...

At the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island, in the heart of New York City’s East River, stands a monumental bronze bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. The island ...

STUDY IN PERSPECTIVE Ai Weiwei’s art questions the hipocricy of China today Ai Weiwei is probably China’s most noteworthy contemporary artist and political activist, but his art often eludes the ...

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SEATTLE — A sculpture made out of bicycle parts that recognizes their bygone role within Chinese society. A self portrait made out of thousands of LEGO. A circle of animal-head sculptures depicting ...

Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases appeared at Seattle Asian Art Museum on April 5, quivering, just waiting to be smashed. Poor vases. Their cheerful, rainbow-candy appearance is so dumb it’s almost touching.

In September this year, Pavilion 13 at the ExpoCentre of Ukraine in Kyiv will open an installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei entitled Three Perfectly Proportioned Spheres and Camouflage Uniforms ...

The Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose provocative work has been acclaimed worldwide, will have his first U.S. major retrospective in a decade at Seattle Art Museum next year. “Ai, Rebel: The ...

A public art initiative marking the 80th anniversary of the U.N. is inviting artists to examine the state of democracy and social justice. The first featured artist is Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, ...

This autumn, Blenheim Palace sees the launch of the new Blenheim Art Foundation, which brings an exciting new programme of contemporary art by leading international artists to the Palace. Opening on ...

"This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition Ai Weiwei: Bare Life, on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum from September 28, 2019, to January 5, 2020. The exhibition was curated ...