In a statement to Hyperallergic after Lisson Gallery nixed his show, the artist warned of “soft violence aimed at stifling voices” on the topic of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Ai Weiwei outside the ...

Ai Weiwei, the Chinese contemporary artist who was detained for nearly three months earlier this year, has begun to speak out once again on Twitter. And after a period of silence following his June ...

The Chinese artist’s commentary “on what is unfolding politically and culturally in our time” has a lighthearted note: cat-patterned camouflage. The work inaugurates a new art series at the park. By ...

Every gallery-goer’s worst nightmare is to accidentally knock into a priceless ceramic. But one man who snuck into an Ai Weiwei exhibition in Italy on Friday was clearly planning to cause a scene when ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, HOST: Now, when art meets activism. Exiled Chinese dissident and renowned artist Ai Weiwei is known for challenging authoritarian politics through his work, and was even detained ...

Freedom, and the lack of it, has long been a key element of the work of Ai Weiwei, the artist, documentarian and activist who remains one of China’s most outspoken dissidents. “I think of freedom as ...

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is posing wide-ranging questions of artificial intelligence—and the public at large—via his latest installation, Ai v. AI. The installation—currently on view at ...

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our time. Ai Weiwei (b.1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, ...