Ahead of his largest-ever exhibition in the U.S., the dissident artist reflects on collecting jade and living below ground.

“I’m like a shattered mirror,” the artist Ai Weiwei tells W one morning in a cozy corner of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), ...

Legendary dissident artist Ai Weiwei is taking over Seattle Art Museum (and beyond) for an extended run, showcasing sharply ...

China’s most famous artist lives quietly in Portugal. But exile is hard, even if it’s golden. On the occasion of his latest exhibition at the MUSAC, a contemporary art museum in the city of León, ...

Although Monet’s word-famous ... Ai Weiwei first deployed Lego bricks as an art medium in 2014 when he used them to create portraits of political prisoners. Now a key element of his practice, Lego ...

Seattle Art Museum (SAM) is showcasing an exhibit by contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei from March 12 to Sept. 7, titled ...

Visitors can also dive deeper into Ai’s philosophy through two of his books, Humanity and Weiwei-isms, published by No More ...

Ai Weiwei is one of the most famous and influential living artists. He works with film, photography, installation, and music. He also writes and works as an art curator. Weiwei was born in Beijing ...

A vandal smashed up a sculpture by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei during the private opening ... account – shows a man ...

You might expect a world-famous artist like Ai Weiwei — who has poked critically at value systems and institutions for decades with his provocative, interrogating art — to be more bombastic.