Gilles Sabrie/LightRocket/Getty Images Ai Weiwei has never been to Alcatraz, but he has spent three years constructing the infamous island prison in his mind. Sitting at a long wooden table within ...

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has created an exhibit that opens Saturday on Alcatraz in the San Francisco bay. WSJ's Monika Auger took at look at it.

The response to the Chinese artist's exhibition on Alcatraz island, when former prisoners of conscience and the families of those still detained sent postcards to Ai ...

The response to the Chinese artist's exhibition on Alcatraz island, when former prisoners of conscience and the families of those still detained sent postcards to Ai ...

First shown on Alcatraz, the former prison in San Francisco ... the great purge of intellectuals in the 1960s that began a few years after Ai Weiwei’s birth. Denounced as a rightist, the poet ...

The first Ai Weiwei retrospective in the U.S. in over a decade is now on display at the Seattle Art Museum. The show features ...

Maxim Derevianko’s “Ai Weiwei’s Turandot” has been picked up by Berlin-based doc specialist Rise and Shine World Sales, ahead of its international premiere on March 21 in the Highlights ...

You might expect a world-famous artist like Ai Weiwei — who has poked critically at value systems and institutions for decades with his provocative, interrogating art — to be more bombastic.