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 ...

Brooklyn Museum’s Vice Director of Exhibitions and Collections Management Sharon Matt Atkins pours Legos into the car designated to collect them for Ai Weiwei (image courtesy Brooklyn Museum) The ...

I hear people ask: is Ai Weiwei an artist or an activist? At his art exhibit, “According to What?” the activism strikes you. He raises awareness of the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake through his ...

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 ...

The first Ai Weiwei retrospective in the U.S. in over a decade is now on display at the Seattle Art Museum. The show features 130 works from the 1980s to 2020s, and will run from March 12 to September ...

Ai Weiwei discusses how he got started on social media. In conjunction with the opening of his major new exhibition, “Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn,” the Museum hosted Ai in conversation with ...

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 ...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery — except perhaps when imitation takes the form of smashing a vase by Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei valued at $1 million. Miami artist Maximo ...

Ai Weiwei discusses his own experiences of incarceration, interrogation, and surveillance. In 2011, he was detained by the Chinese government for eighty-one days and then prohibited from traveling ...

A South Florida artist has apologized for smashing a $1 million vase that was part of a Miami museum exhibit by noted Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Maximo Caminero told the Miami Herald Tuesday ...

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 ...