Antique wood is one of Ai Weiwei’s signature materials. As in many of Ai’s works, his repurposing of traditional objects into new, surreal forms destroys their original function but also confers a new ...

The artist is not present. Ai Weiwei has a new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum opening on April 18, but the persecuted Chinese artist will not be coming to present his work, because he is stuck in ...

Slide Show: Ai Weiwei's Art: Documenting the Story of Ai Weiwei: ... One of his first works appropriating late Ming and Qing furniture, "Double Stool" (1997). Photo Courtesy of Ai Weiwei.

The Royal Academy of Arts will run Ai Weiwei 360 until November 20, extending the life of the original show by almost one year. The digital tour lets viewers explore several galleries spanning 25 ...

The Chinese artist, activist, and filmmaker Ai Weiwei slumped in a chair at the Kettle’s Yard gallery, in Cambridge. He had a trimmed goatee and was dressed all in black, the heels of his shoes ...

There couldn’t be a better exhibition to inaugurate the new Perez Art Museum Miami than the traveling solo retrospective from the famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Like the museum, Ai Weiwei ...

Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases appeared at Seattle Asian Art Museum on April 5, quivering, just waiting to be smashed. Poor vases. Their cheerful, rainbow-candy appearance is so dumb it’s almost ...

Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry Talk Art, Legos and Being Cultural Renegades Two creative people in two different fields in one wide-ranging conversation. This time: the artist and the architect.

Slide Show: Ai Weiwei's Art: Documenting the Story of Ai Weiwei: An Interview with Evan Osnos: Online Maestro --"Teacher Ai" Tweet. Slide Show: Ai Weiwei's Architecture, Installations and Objects.