Last year, the editors of ArtReview magazine named the Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei the most powerful artist in the world. It was an unusual choice. Ai’s varied, scattershot work doesn’t fetch ...

The groundbreaking, exiled Chinese artist builds a hopeful new life—and a new studio, in the Portuguese countryside By Jay Cheshes Photographs by Jo Metson Scott Ai Weiwei’s relocation to ...

Ai Weiwei spent 12 years in the United States, right when the 1980s AIDS crisis was at its height. The artist often referred to the health crisis in his works from that period. During his studies ...

This week, the Seattle Art Museum opened the largest-ever U.S. exhibition featuring the work of Chinese artist and activist ...

The Design Museum, London, will open Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style on 28 March. This playful yet profound exhibition explores humankind’s deep-rooted relationship with water through design.

Emma talks to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei about his new film, the UK relationship with China, and what it's like to ...

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.

But the repeating pattern of intertwining colourful forms did not come from the hand of the 19th-century British designer and leader of the Arts & Crafts movement, but rather from pioneering ...

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 ...

And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, a film directed by Maxim Derevianko about the artist’s production of the classic Puccini opera.

Melissa Chiu: It's hard to say because few people want to directly communicate about it. One artist in Beijing hung up the phone when asked about Ai Weiwei. Caochangdi has been overun with police.

“Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei” runs through Sept. 7 at Seattle Art Museum. “Ai Weiwei: Water Lilies” opens at the Seattle Asian Art Museum on March 19, and “Circle of Animals/Zodiac ...