Ahead of his largest-ever exhibition in the U.S., the dissident artist reflects on collecting jade and living below ground.

“I’m like a shattered mirror,” the artist Ai Weiwei tells W one morning in a cozy corner of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), ...

Legendary dissident artist Ai Weiwei is taking over Seattle Art Museum (and beyond) for an extended run, showcasing sharply ...

Visitors can also dive deeper into Ai’s philosophy through two of his books, Humanity and Weiwei-isms, published by No More ...

A man destroyed a porcelain sculpture by Ai Weiwei seemingly on purpose during ... artist on Friday evening in Italy. The ...

“The act of vandalism against Ai Weiwei’s work Porcelain Cube is even more shocking when we consider that several of the ...

‘The act of vandalism against Ai Weiwei’s work Porcelain Cube is even more shocking when we consider that several of the ...

Initially, Ai Weiwei started to work with topics related to human rights ... One of his most famous works consisted of a hundred million porcelain sunflower seeds that were scattered inside ...

You might expect a world-famous artist like Ai Weiwei — who has poked critically at value systems and institutions for decades with his provocative, interrogating art — to be more bombastic.