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 ...

Ai Weiwei: First, I always like to have a new possibility ... At least in the beginning of art. But that’s not your goal. That’s not my goal, but the problem is in the question ...

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

The photographs document a distinct era in New York, as seen through Ai Weiwei's eyes, tracing the beginnings of his conceptual art practice. They depict East Village poetry readings, riots in ...

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

Ai Weiwei, The U.S. Navy collecting the remnants ... commonly used by those masses and offers his viewers a way into the art. Other key points of entry are images and subjects drawn from pop ...

The artist is literally fencing New York City in, with massive public artworks focused on immigration. At Ai Weiwei’s Unnerving New Installation, The Art Spies On You As drones buzz overhead ...

Ai Weiwei, “Last U.S. Soldier Leaving Afghanistan” (2022), toy bricks (LEGO), ~104 3/4 X 104 3/4 inches (266 x 266 cm) Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic.

A porcelain sculpture by Ai Weiwei was intentionally broken by a man ... Pisvejc has form when it comes to causing ...