The notorious Ai Weiwei sent the art world into a frenzy when he announced that he would make a metal record. When he named it “Dumbass,” the excitement only increased. Now he’s actually following ...

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Chinese sculptor, installation artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei has released the first song off his planned heavy metal album. Like the rest of the album, “Dumbass” takes inspiration from and ...

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Documentary directed by Alison Klayman. In English and Chinese with English subtitles. (R, 91 mins.) Chinese artist Ai Weiwei spent a productive decade in New York, noticed by almost no one, before ...

The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has come under criticism for recreating the tragic image of the the drowned three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi, whose lifeless body washed up on a beach ...

Portraits of dissidents crafted from hundreds of thousands of Legos. A wing-like sculpture made from Tibetan solar cookers. Bright piles of white porcelain florals. And a series of sound installations ...

Elton John struck a note of support for dissident artist Ai Weiwei at his show in Beijing Sunday night. But did he also strike a blow at China’s live music scene? Mr. John dedicated the show “to the ...

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 is back at it! Alamo Drafthouse has debuted the first official trailer for CoroNation, the latest documentary film made by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. While the rest of the world was slowly ...