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In the documentary, ‘Ai Weiwei’s Turandot’, screening at Hot Docs 2025, revolutionary artist Ai Weiwei takes his first steps in making an opera.
"Life Cycle," Ai Weiwei's new work on display now at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles, was shipped out of China just days before Chinese authorities razed Ai's studio without warning.
Ai Weiwei, internationally known artist and activist, is at the Hirshhorn Museum for his new exhibit, Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) ...
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is internationally known both for his artworks and for the fact that he has been detained by the Chinese government since 2011. With the seven works in @Large, Ai uses the ...
Ai Weiwei completed the "Study in Perspective" series from 1995 to 2003 and captured his defiant middle finger in front of seats of political or cultural power in Paris, Washington DC, Berlin ...
Ai Weiwei Studio/Courtesy Public Art Fund “Public Art Fund is all about … making this city a platform — an open platform — for free expression,” says director and curator Baume.
Ai's ordeal began on April 3, 2011, when he was arrested and charged with tax evasion, which his supporters interpreted as retaliation by the Chinese government for his mounting political criticism.
When his major survey exhibition opens at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, Ai Weiwei will be in the building.
Center: A close up of Ai Weiwei's Life Cycle (2018), a bamboo-and-silk sculpture depicting refugees in a lifeboat surrounded by deities, at the Marciano Art Foundation.
Alison Klayman at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. For Ai Weiwei, her first film, Klayman got incredible access to the artist both abroad and in China.
Watching”Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry”is like experiencing a thrilling unfinished symphony: The story is enthralling, but it’s not over, and there’s no telling where it’s going.