Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was recently barred from entering Switzerland after he was unable to produce a visitor's visa.
The AI’s responses to queries related to dissident artists and artistic freedom were terse and biased in favor of the Chinese ...
The exhibition "Ai Weiwei: Life Cycle" at the Marciano features Ai's new work — a bamboo sculpture of a refugee boat carrying men, women and children. But it almost didn't make it here.
The seizing of Ai Weiwei at Beijing airport by Chinese police on 3 April 2011 must count as the most famous arrest of any artist ever. While the ostensible charge was tax evasion, Ai’s ...
A government-sanctioned look back at the early fight against COVID-19 differs sharply from a documentary directed by artist and dissident Ai Weiwei. Artist enfant terrible Aida Makoto spoke with ...