In September this year, Pavilion 13 at the ExpoCentre of Ukraine in Kyiv will open an installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei entitled Three Perfectly Proportioned Spheres and Camouflage Uniforms ...
DeepSeek, a new Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot rival to ChatGPT, has sent shockwaves through U.S. political circles this week, tanking tech stocks of companies like Nvidia. The launch of ...
In more than 130 works, the Seattle survey reflects on Ai Weiwei’s political engagement from the 1980s to today. Photo: Chloe Collyer Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently ...
SEATTLE — A sculpture made out of bicycle parts that recognizes their bygone role within Chinese society. A self portrait made out of thousands of LEGO. A circle of animal-head sculptures depicting ...
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 in a ...
A public art initiative marking the 80th anniversary of the U.N. is inviting artists to examine the state of democracy and social justice. The first featured artist is Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, ...
Ahead of his largest-ever exhibition in the U.S., the dissident artist reflects on collecting jade and living below ground. By Zoey Poll For the Artist’s Questionnaire series, T asks a creative person ...
On Wednesday, the festival hosts the world premiere of Animality, the great Chinese artist’s latest documentary. And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei’s ...
What is the role of an artist in contemporary times? “As an artist, as an individual, you have to defend what you believe, right? Because that is exactly the kind of work that would help human society ...
“I’m like a shattered mirror,” the artist Ai Weiwei tells W one morning in a cozy corner of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), where he’s mounting his first U.S. retrospective in over a decade. “A mirror ...
Eigentlich mag er keine Opern, sagt der chinesische Künstler Ai Weiwei in die Kamera. Am Römer Opernhaus hat er doch eine inszeniert, Puccinis "Turandot". Der Dokumentarfilm "Ai Weiweis Turandot" ...
A public art initiative marking the 80th anniversary of the U.N. is inviting artists to examine the state of democracy and social justice. The first featured artist is Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, ...