Ai’s “Water Lilies” immediately differentiates itself from Monet’s work, the most apparent differences being the medium and ...

The Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei quietly returned to China last month, after spending a decade in exile in Europe.

If it weren't for the gallery assistant's haughty, dismissive tone, I probably would never have stolen the painting. To be clear, I'm not normally an art thief. My day jobs are as a civil rights ...

Ai Weiwei’s new Manchester exhibition uses buttons to trace imperial history, industrial labor, and China’s relationship with the West.

Ai Weiwei, "Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo" (2014) (all images courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio) CAMBRIDGE, England — Why is it so difficult to write about Ai Weiwei? I begin to discover the answer as I ...

Ai Weiwei mounted a production of Puccini’s Turandot at the Rome Opera House amid the Covid pandemic recovery and the war in Ukraine. It also was Weiwei’s first opera. Maxim Derevianko, director of ...

In September this year, Pavilion 13 at the ExpoCentre of Ukraine in Kyiv will open an installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei entitled Three Perfectly Proportioned Spheres and Camouflage Uniforms ...

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, ...

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Ai Weiwei returned to China in December 2025 for the first time since 2015, drawing attention through interviews in which he contrasted the ease of life in China with what he described as bureaucratic ...