Ai Weiwei is shown with “Forge” (2008-12), made out of 100 steel reinforcing bars and ink on canvas. The artist is shown March 7, 2025, at Seattle Art Museum ahead of SAM's “Ai, Rebel: The Art and ...

In one work, Ai reimagines van Gogh’s Wheatfield with Crows, the 1890 painting of black birds flying over a golden field. Van ...

At the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island, in the heart of New York City’s East River, stands a monumental bronze bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. The island ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A sculpture created by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was smashed into pieces this week during its opening exhibition. Over the ...

Ai Weiwei mounted a production of Puccini’s Turandot at the Rome Opera House amid the Covid pandemic recovery and the war in Ukraine. It also was Weiwei’s first opera. Maxim Derevianko, director of ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei showcases his Lego brick works at Tang Contemporary in his first Singapore solo show. Read more at ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Decades after his death, he continues to influence contemporary artists. Here are four — of many — who have riffed on his ...

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 ...