Putting together SAM's major Ai Weiwei exhibition wasn't easy. Knowing how it was done might add to the enjoyment as viewers ...

When Ai Weiwei was detained by China’s secret police, the dissident artist imprisoned for 81 days for his supposed crimes against the state, the men tasked with interrogating him must have faced ...

Ai Weiwei: For me, to smash it is a valuable act. If you buy that …and the art world certainly did…look at what he did to these urns doused in bright paint or emblazoned with the Coca-Cola ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is famous for using his art to provoke the authorities in China, but lately, he's been focusing on refugees. He's made an installation from the discarded clothes and shoes ...

SIMON: Ai Weiwei is the son of Ai Qing, a well-known poet who fell out of favor with the Chinese Communist Party in the 1950s. That's why his family was up there in northwestern China - in a labor ...

When his major survey exhibition opens at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, Ai Weiwei will be in the building. In the four years Ai has spent without a passport, prevented from leaving China by ...

Ai Weiwei, internationally known artist and activist, is at the Hirshhorn Museum for his new exhibit, Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) ...

Center: A close up of Ai Weiwei's Life Cycle (2018), a bamboo-and-silk sculpture depicting refugees in a lifeboat surrounded by deities, at the Marciano Art Foundation.

Ai Weiwei is weary from travel. The Chinese artist and human rights activist shuffles into the Marciano Art Foundation’s cavernous Theater Gallery — he arrived in L.A. from Berlin just last ...

Ai Weiwei outside his studio in Caochangdi, Beijing, 2009. The title of Ai Weiwei’s new memoir is 1,000 Years of Joys and Sorrows; it’s also an apt description of his life thus far.

Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei was awarded the Chinese Contemporary Art Award for Lifetime Contribution in 2008. He was taken into custody by Chinese authorities nearly a month ago.

Danish director Andreas Johnsen’s “Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case” picks up where Alison Klayman’s “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” left off, serving as not just an update, but an even more ...