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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...