Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and political activist who was detained Sunday at the Beijing airport while trying to fly to Hong Kong, has been blocked from leaving the country before. He was prevented ...

"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 ...

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In the weeks before the opening of “Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei” at the Seattle Art Museum in March, the team responsible for tracking and installing the sprawling retrospective of ...

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei is calling attention to the international refugee crisis with his latest installation in Denmark. For “Soleil Levant,” Weiwei barricaded the windows of a museum with ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center gets back to showing a full movie slate this week after taking its annual multi-week hiatus while owner-operator Rene Broussard made his yearly trek to the ...

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 ...

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 section of the ...

On Wednesday, the festival hosts the world premiere of Animality, the great Chinese artist’s latest documentary. And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei’s ...