"This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition Ai Weiwei: Bare Life, on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum from September 28, 2019, to January 5, 2020. The exhibition was curated ...

Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and political activist who was detained Sunday at the Beijing airport while trying to fly to Hong Kong, has been blocked from leaving the country before. He was prevented ...

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been released, as has his cousin Zhang Jinsong, but that doesn’t mean the story is over. Ai’s legal case is still open, China is still detaining and jailing ...

(CNN) — In 2015, China handed back something of great value to Ai Weiwei: his Chinese passport. The move allowed the dissident artist to travel for the first time since authorities revoked his ...

Image from a June protest on the steps of San Francisco's Asian Art Museum. (via flickr.com/scotthessphoto) We last posted on Ai Weiwei on June 30 with news of his ...

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei is calling attention to the international refugee crisis with his latest installation in Denmark. For “Soleil Levant,” Weiwei barricaded the windows of a museum with ...

Ai (his name is pronounced eye way-way) is perfect for the part. Having spent his formative years as an artist in New York in the 1980s, when Warhol was a god and conceptual and performance art were ...

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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, ...