Legendary dissident artist Ai Weiwei is taking over Seattle Art Museum (and beyond) for an extended run, showcasing sharply ...

Ahead of his largest-ever exhibition in the U.S., the dissident artist reflects on collecting jade and living below ground.

“I’m like a shattered mirror,” the artist Ai Weiwei tells W one morning in a cozy corner of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), ...

Seattle Art Museum (SAM) is showcasing an exhibit by contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei from March 12 to Sept. 7, titled ...

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.

The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei has Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot as its inspiration. And the reason for this is found in ...

“When China hosts the Olympics again, it is no longer the China back in 2008,” dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said in an email to The AP. Ai helped design the famous Bird’s Nest stadium ...

Visitors can also dive deeper into Ai’s philosophy through two of his books, Humanity and Weiwei-isms, published by No More ...

Ai Weiwei continues his series of large-scale works reimagining historic art in Lego bricks with this take on Guido Reni’s scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Savelkoul describes it as “a ...

This spring, it’s Paris calling. The French capital’s recent art history is the subject of two monumental surveys—one at the Centre Pompidou, the other at the Singaporean National Gallery of Art—that ...