Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei was barred from entering Switzerland over a lack of proper travel documents, police said ...

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 ...

The Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei was denied entry to Switzerland and is among thousands affected by Portugal's visa ...

Ai Weiwei is the most famous Chinese artist working today. His work, some of which is on an epic scale, often highlights issues of human rights and freedom of speech.

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.

Is China raising the stakes against its domestic critics? The New York Times reports that authorities have torn down the Shanghai studio of Ai Weiwei, an internationally celebrated artist known for ...

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

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 ...

features an installation titled Left Right Studio Material (2018). The piece comprises a bed of shattered blue-and-white ...

Ai Weiwei is the most famous Chinese artist working today. His work, some of which is on an epic scale, often highlights issues of human rights and freedom of speech. Inside Ai Weiwei's Berlin studio ...

In the following years, Ai Weiwei’s studio was demolished without prior warning (according to the official statement, it was demolished due to illegal construction) and the artist himself was ...