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

This spring, the Seattle Art Museum hosts a moveable feast of Ai Weiwei, presenting for the first time the work of one artist across all three locations. It has hosted a huge spider and a pickled ...

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 ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Three of these are dedicated solo exhibitions, like “Ai, Rebel: The Art and ...

How does one summarize a life in 40 years, let alone a life as incredibly rich, complex, and interesting as Ai Weiwei’s?” It’s a valid question, and one the museum seeks to answer by literally ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The film follows Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he makes his debut as an opera director at the Rome Opera House, with a radical interpretation of Puccini’s century-old masterpiece.