Ai Weiwei says he says he spends a lot of time watching animals. AI WEIWEI: I think when you live with animals, you learn a lot. And they are often more sensible or helpful, are highly intelligent in ...

Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei says kids should be given the greatest possible freedom to discover their artistic talents. Don't correct youngsters while they are painting or drawing, he says.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is still missing after his arrest over a week ago, so the story now turns around how the arrest is being discussed in international dialogue. US, German and French officials ...

If there is anyone in the art world with the legitimacy to question narratives of power, it is Ai Weiwei. The Chinese artist spent his childhood in exile with his family in a remote region of China ...

Visitors to the beloved Steam Room dry cleaners in Haggerston, the U.K., are being welcomed by a new work by Ai Weiwei, celebrating the Lunar New Year. The screen print, titled Guardian (2024), has ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been missing for 12 days without official charge from the Chinese government. In protest, artists and activists all over the world are planning a global sit-in this Sunday ...

We’ve all become used to tapping any manner of information request into Google or ChatGPT and waiting just seconds to get our reply. Still, many of life’s bigger questions have no quick and easy ...

On Wednesday, the festival hosts the world premiere of Animality, the great Chinese artist’s latest documentary. And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei’s ...

“I’m like a shattered mirror,” the artist Ai Weiwei tells W one morning in a cozy corner of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), where he’s mounting his first U.S. retrospective in over a decade. “A mirror ...

ROME — A man smashed a sculpture by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei during the private opening of his exhibition in the northern Italian city of Bologna, in an act of vandalism that the show's ...