China’s most famous artist lives quietly in Portugal. But exile is hard, even if it’s golden. On the occasion of his latest ...

He also writes and works as an art curator. Weiwei was born in Beijing in 1957. His father was a famous Chinese poet Ai Qing, one of the brightest voices of his generation. Qing studied in Paris ...

Ai’s father, the leading Chinese modernist poet ... being a great artist – and how he inspired a generation of YBAs Ai Weiwei’s ‘Straight’ was made with the remnants of buildings damaged ...

Ai Weiwei first deployed Lego bricks as an art medium in 2014 ... representing the door to the underground dugout in Xinjiang province where Ai and his father, the acclaimed poet Ai Qing, lived in ...