This is the first Art Diary of 2025. Viewing art, as with its making, involves paying attention. As Simone Weil once pointed out, paying attention equates to prayer.

16.5 x 16.5 x 16.5 in. (41.9 x 41.9 x 41.9 cm.) London, Tate, The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds, exh. cat., 2010-2011, p. 63, no. 47 (another unique ...

Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel and artist Ai Weiwei with Observer’s Stephen Wozniak during a walkthrough of “Child’s Play” at Vito Schnabel Gallery. Photo by Stephen Wozniak At Vito ...

It's the first public art installation in Washington Square Park since 2017!

中国艺术家艾未未探望了被英国监禁的维基解密的创始人阿桑奇。 Artist Ai Weiwei speaks to the media after visiting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at HMP Belmarsh ...

For Freedoms’ billboards could surprise, comfort or confuse. Now the group is asking, Where do we go from here?

Reference to Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei (Ài Wèiwei 艾未未). The use of this code lead to the phrase "love the future" being blocked from Weibo search results around June-August 2011.

The exhibition marks the first time Ai Weiwei’s New York Photographs series is being shown outside of China. Before Ai Weiwei became internationally recognized as an artist and activist, he lived in a ...

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 exhibition showcases the artist’s pixel-like LEGO wall works of reimagined classic paintings and headline news that question the construction of our very reality. Ai Weiwei, The U.S. Navy ...

Lily Cole and Sir Geoff Hurst Barnaby Martin’s show-stopping dispatch reveals more to Kiran Acharya than any document to date on Ai Weiwei’s place in China and the international art world and a rare ...

Artist Ai Weiwei has said his new exhibition has been cancelled after he posted comments on social media referencing the Israel-Gaza conflict. The Chinese artist and activist's exhibition was due ...