BEIJING — Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who helped make his name smashing a valuable vase in the name of art, said Wednesday that he was miffed about another artist destroying one of his vases ...

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On Sunday, February 16, Miami-based artist Maximo Caminero picked up and smashed a vase by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, which is currently showing his ...

MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. artist faces a criminal charge after police say he smashed a $1 million vase by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei at Miami's new art museum to protest what he called its ...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery — except perhaps when imitation takes the form of smashing a vase by Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei valued at $1 million. Miami artist Maximo ...

So you had a good laugh back in February when Maximo Caminero smashed one of Ai Weiwei’s colorful vases at the Perez Art Museum Miami – but why should he have all the fun? Face it, you want to destroy ...

Was it protest, performance art, or vandalism? The question lingers after news broke that a Florida man deliberately trashed a vase by Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei. His act echoes one of ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has drawn criticism from some in the art world over the years for covering ancient vases with brightly colored industrial paint. But after a museum visitor in Miami smashed ...

7.48 x 8.27 x 8.35 in. (19 x 21 x 21.2 cm.) Glass Vase (2023) is an excellent example of Ai Weiwei's ongoing interrogation of capitalism, commodity culture, and it relationship to antiquities - a ...