On Wednesday, the festival hosts the world premiere of Animality, the great Chinese artist’s latest documentary. And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei’s ...

Ai Weiwei welcomes a recorded interview. The Chinese-born dissident artist, documentarian and activist has instigated the Chinese government with his work and words over its views on democracy and ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, HOST: Now, when art meets activism. Exiled Chinese dissident and renowned artist Ai Weiwei is known for challenging authoritarian politics through his work, and was even detained ...

“I’m like a shattered mirror,” the artist Ai Weiwei tells W one morning in a cozy corner of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), where he’s mounting his first U.S. retrospective in over a decade. “A mirror ...

To go with 'China-rights-culture-art, by Bill Savadove In a photo taken on June 25, 2012 Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses for a photo inside his compound in Beijing. Ai has a metaphor for the travel ban ...

Every gallery-goer’s worst nightmare is to accidentally knock into a priceless ceramic. But one man who snuck into an Ai Weiwei exhibition in Italy on Friday was clearly planning to cause a scene when ...

Ai Weiwei Shares Details About the Film He Is Directing Via Skype in This New Interview The artist talks about directing his 6-year-old son, not being able to leave China, and his love for Berlin.

Like a cosmological comic, the artist’s new ‘graphic memoir’ entwines recalled experience with legend and imagination. By Jonathan Landreth As the Year of the Dragon dawns, the Chinese artist Ai ...