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 ...

DeepSeek, a new Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot rival to ChatGPT, has sent shockwaves through U.S. political circles this week, tanking tech stocks of companies like Nvidia. The launch of ...

STUDY IN PERSPECTIVE Ai Weiwei’s art questions the hipocricy of China today Ai Weiwei is probably China’s most noteworthy contemporary artist and political activist, but his art often eludes the ...

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 ...

Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel and artist Ai Weiwei with Observer’s Stephen Wozniak during a walkthrough of “Child’s Play” at Vito Schnabel Gallery. Photo by Stephen Wozniak At Vito Schnabel ...

Visual art is rarely my scene. So when my date invited me to see the Ai Weiwei exhibition in New York's Chelsea neighborhood this past winter, I wasn't exactly thrilled. But walking into the Vito ...

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 ...

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, ...

Reading through detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s blog, recently translated by Lee Ambrozy and published as a book by MIT Press, isn’t fun, and it’s not for the faint of heart. A carefully selected ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle is a Paris-based reporter covering art and culture Ai Weiwei insists that he’s simply a troublemaker rather ...

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 ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose disappearance in April caused an international outcry, endured intense psychological pressure during 81 days in secretive detention and ...