Ai Weiwei is shown with “Forge” (2008-12), made out of 100 steel reinforcing bars and ink on canvas. The artist is shown March 7, 2025, at Seattle Art Museum ahead of SAM's “Ai, Rebel: The Art and ...

A sculpture created by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was smashed into pieces this week during its opening exhibition. Over the weekend, Ai showcased a new sculpture in the Italian city of Bologna, as part ...

Ai Weiwei mounted a production of Puccini’s Turandot at the Rome Opera House amid the Covid pandemic recovery and the war in Ukraine. It also was Weiwei’s first opera. Maxim Derevianko, director of ...

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 ...

BERLIN — This is the final weekend to see Ai Weiwei: Evidence at the Martin-Gropius-Bau museum in Berlin. The German exhibition is a sweeping survey of mostly recent work that occupies 32,000 square ...

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, ...

If it weren't for the gallery assistant's haughty, dismissive tone, I probably would never have stolen the painting. To be clear, I'm not normally an art thief. My day jobs are as a civil rights ...

In more than 130 works, the Seattle survey reflects on Ai Weiwei’s political engagement from the 1980s to today. Photo: Chloe Collyer Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently ...

"Ai Weiwei's work thinks big: big politics, big history, big issues, big materials," said Charles Mudede in The Stranger. So it's fitting that the first U.S. exhibition of Ai's art in more than a ...

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 ...