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

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 ...

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

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

He spent four years under house arrest before leaving China in 2015.

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(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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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