Ai Weiwei is one of the most famous and influential living artists. He works with film, photography, installation, and music. He also writes and works as an art curator. Weiwei was born in Beijing ...

Although Monet’s word-famous ... Ai Weiwei first deployed Lego bricks as an art medium in 2014 when he used them to create portraits of political prisoners. Now a key element of his practice, Lego ...

Ai Weiwei will join Factory International Creative Director Kee Hong Low to discuss his role as a global citizen, artist & ...

A vandal smashed up a sculpture by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei during the private opening of his exhibition in Italy.

The seizing of Ai Weiwei at Beijing airport by Chinese police on 3 April 2011 must count as the most famous arrest of any artist ever. While the ostensible charge was tax evasion, Ai’s ...

GENEVA – Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei was barred from entering Switzerland ... s best-known modern artist and helped design the famous Bird’s Nest stadium for Beijing’s 2008 Olympics.

VENICE, Italy--Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei warns against hubris in what ... Lego-brick portrait replicas of famous paintings and the Chinese zodiac line the walls of adjacent rooms.

Ai Weiwei will join Factory International Creative Director Kee Hong Low to discuss his role as a global citizen, artist & thinker in a special talk at Aviva Studios on 12th March. In The Neverending ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was recently barred from entering Switzerland after he was unable to produce a visitor's visa. According to an Instagram post by Ai, he spent the evening of February 10 on a ...