Ai Weiwei on creating political art in the Trump era: ‘Be part of the change’ June 27, 2017 Ai Weiwei, internationally known artist and activist, is at the Hirshhorn Museum for his new exhibit ...

Ai Weiwei, known for his witty and conceptual nose-thumbing at shibboleths both abroad and in his native Communist China, is one of the world’s most enduring art stars. His consistent knack for cheeky ...

Politics; June 7, 2013; Ai Weiwei: Political Art at the Venice Biennale Ai Weiwei: Political Art at the Venice Biennale. Six dioramas present key moments of the eighty-one-day imprisonment of the ...

Enemy of the State 13:00. Ai Weiwei is China's most famous political dissident; a provocateur and a troublemaker whose clashes with the Chinese government have gotten him harassed by police ...

Ai Weiwei is probably China’s most noteworthy contemporary artist and political activist, but his art often eludes the attention of the public, as that part of his life is overshadowed by his role as ...

On the political possibilities in Ai's art "A lot of [Ai's] artwork is about setting up conditions and then seeing what happens. He's not able to pull the strings.

"Ai Weiwei's work thinks big: big politics, big history, big issues, big materials," said Charles Mudede in The Stranger. So it's fitting that the first U.S. exhibition of Ai's art in more than a ...

Ai is better-known now than ever after the release in 2012 of a critically acclaimed full-length documentary on his life. A new documentary making the rounds chronicles his legal battles against ...

Westerners are often criticized for looking at Chinese art through a narrow political lens. ... follow-up interview at a hotel café near the 798 Art District. By chance, Ai Weiwei was sitting at ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Chinese artist and provocateur Ai Weiwei relishes the symbolism of displaying his portraits of political dissidents and activists in Washington at a time when human rights and ...