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

China isn’t the only country imposing limits on creative expression, argues the provocative artist ...

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 ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to hold first major show in the north of England - Manchester arts organisation Factory ...

(Adds missing word in the title of Ai Weiwei’s new book, "On Censorship", in paragraph 5) By Catarina Demony and Gerhard Mey LONDON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident whose activist ...

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 ...

Aparajita Jain, co-director of Nature Morte, explains that bringing Ai Weiwei to India is about exchange, about letting ...

The 68-year-old plans a "large-scale show" at Aviva Studios for his first show in the north of England.

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei opened his first solo exhibition in India last week at the capital’s Nature Morte art ...

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 ...

For the past 10 years the dissident artist has lived in Germany, the UK and now Portugal, never once setting foot in his native country, where people with far less controversial pasts have faced ...

Reading through detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s blog, recently translated by Lee Ambrozy and published as a book by MIT Press, isn’t fun, and it’s not for the faint of heart. A carefully selected ...