Ai Weiwei is a Beijing artist and activist. The term “the God Ai” refers to an incident in Chengdu. Ai Weiwei and others were at a hotel when the police burst in. They accused Ai Weiwei of ...

In truth, Ai Weiwei, at 67, is all those things as evidenced ... 7, highlights work from his formative years in his native Beijing through 12 years in New York, where he attended the Parsons ...

In the documentary Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, the multi-disciplinary artist known for his architecture, installations and sculptures, takes his first steps into opera, an artistic medium he’s never ...

In a basement gallery under London's Oxford Street, Jeremy Allen discovers a cache of precious stones formedfromthe voices of Ai Weiwei, Lily Cole and Sir Geoff Hurst Barnaby Martin’s show-stopping ...

(Iwan Baan) Born in Beijing and now living in Portugal, Weiwei is a contemporary artist and activist. Weiwei left China in 2015 after facing years of government pressure for criticizing its human ...

it's "a very clear reference to the artist Ai Weiwei," China media and advertising expert Jeremy Goldkorn said in an interview with Asia Society from Beijing late last week. Here's the backstory you ...

By Zachary Small The Four Freedoms Park Conservancy announced on Thursday that it has commissioned the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for a monumental installation on Roosevelt Island that will kick off ...