Since 2019, the art world has been wondering what artist Ai Weiwei planned to do with 30 tons of old buttons he rescued from a shuttered British factory. This summer, the artist will finally reveal ...

ROME – A man smashed a sculpture by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei during the private opening of his exhibition in the northern Italian city of Bologna, in an act of vandalism that the show's ...

This story appears in our Spring Art + Performance 2025 Issue, published on March 5, 2025. The title of Seattle Art Museum’s Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei has Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot as ...

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 ...

LONDON — Ai Weiwei is sitting meditatively on the third floor of the Design Museum here, where his first major design exhibition, “Ai Weiwei: Making Sense,” is about to open to the public on Friday.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been missing for 12 days without official charge from the Chinese government. In protest, artists and activists all over the world are planning a global sit-in this Sunday ...

ROME (AP) — A man smashed a sculpture by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei during the private opening of his exhibition in the northern Italian city of Bologna, in an act of vandalism that the ...