The son of a poet revered by former communist leaders, 67-year-old Ai is perhaps China's best-known modern artist and helped ...

The AI’s responses to queries related to dissident artists and artistic freedom were terse and biased in favor of the Chinese ...

Mark Hudson talks to China’s most provocative exile about his new exhibition, the triple standards of the West, the crisis of ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was barred from entering Switzerland on Monday because he was unable to produce a visa. According to an Instagram post by Ai Weiwei, he spent the night from Monday to Tuesday ...

DeepSeek, a new Chinese chatbot, alarmed American political circles this week. Now, Chinese dissident artists like Ai Weiwei ...

16.5 x 16.5 x 16.5 in. (41.9 x 41.9 x 41.9 cm.) London, Tate, The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds, exh. cat., 2010-2011, p. 63, no. 47 (another unique ...

Ahead of his major show at London’s Design Museum, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has unveiled a homage to Impressionist painter, Claude Monet, constructed entirely of Lego. The piece, titled Water Lilies ...

He lacked the necessary travel documents, but he was not detained, Swiss police said. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Led by major retrospectives of Ai Weiwei, Wayne Thiebaud, Ruth Asawa, Rashid Johnson and more, these shows illuminate new ways to appreciate top artists, past and present.

Ai Weiwei spent 12 years in the United States, right when the 1980s AIDS crisis was at its height. The artist often referred to the health crisis in his works from that period.