Last October, I mentioned Ai Weiwei, but was perhaps insufficiently sympathetic. At best, his art bursts with loud, defiant, and impossible to ignore courage. He has detractors, for sure, but ...

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LONDON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident whose activist art has made him Beijing's best-known critic, said on ‌Thursday the West should examine its own human rights record before ...

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has spoken about the experience of quietly returning to his homeland for the first time in about a decade, describing it as being like a “phone call that had been ...

Artist Ai Weiwei returned to his native China after 10 years in exile. Ai has lived in Europe since 2015, when he fled China following four years under house arrest. His return raises questions about ...

Ai Weiwei's neolithic vase with Coca-Cola logo on display Prince Harry and Meghan offered royal olive branch – on one crucial condition Overnight raids see arrests and home demolitions Supreme Court ...

Ai Weiwei mounted a production of Puccini’s Turandot at the Rome Opera House amid the Covid pandemic recovery and the war in Ukraine. It also was Weiwei’s first opera. Maxim Derevianko, director of ...

BERLIN — This is the final weekend to see Ai Weiwei: Evidence at the Martin-Gropius-Bau museum in Berlin. The German exhibition is a sweeping survey of mostly recent work that occupies 32,000 square ...

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A public art initiative marking the 80th anniversary of the U.N. is inviting artists to examine the state of democracy and social justice. The first featured artist is Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, ...