The Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei quietly returned to China last month, after spending a decade in exile in Europe.

Ai Weiwei, "Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo" (2014) (all images courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio) CAMBRIDGE, England — Why is it so difficult to write about Ai Weiwei? I begin to discover the answer as I ...

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist. His father's original surname was written Jiang. Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle is a Paris-based reporter covering art and culture Ai Weiwei insists that he’s simply a troublemaker rather ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amid the shadow of war, the world-renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has brought his first-ever exhibition to Kyiv. Commissioned by the non-profit platform RIBBON International, Ai’s ...

A show now at the Seattle Art Museum is the largest in the U.S. in the 40-year career of the renowned Chinese artist. The exhibition “Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei” is on display at the ...

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 ...

We speak with acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who recently had an exhibition in London canceled after he publicly criticized Israel’s assault on Gaza. “We are gradually losing the ground of ...

Over the past several decades, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has become one of the most important and recognizable names in contemporary art, activism, and politics. He is never afraid and never apologetic ...