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

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

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

One of Ai Weiwei’s most famous and shocking artistic projects was the photographic triptych titled Dropping the Han Dynasty Urn. In the early 1990s, he purchased two 2000-year-old vases from a ...

The seizing of Ai Weiwei at Beijing airport by Chinese police on 3 April 2011 must count as the most famous arrest of any artist ever. While the ostensible charge was tax evasion, Ai’s ...