In response to President Trump scrapping diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, one national museum followed the ...

Ai Weiwei first deployed Lego bricks as an art medium in 2014 when he used them to create portraits of political prisoners. Now a key element of his practice, Lego will also feature heavily in the ...

The response to the Chinese artist's exhibition on Alcatraz island, when former prisoners of conscience and the families of those still detained sent postcards to Ai Weiwei. The story of artist Ai ...

The Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei was denied entry to Switzerland and is among thousands affected by Portugal's visa ...

Ai Weiwei encapsulates political conviction and his personal poetry in his many sculptures, photographs and public works. In doing this, he makes use of Chinese art forms to display the Chinese ...

The 57-year-old is understood to be known for targeting important works of art ... Ai Weiwei’s work Porcelain Cube is even ...

The seizing of Ai Weiwei ... hence the show’s title. But what was he hoping to achieve by framing his work in a way that invites ridicule? Was it a kind of satire on the way art is packaged ...

GENEVA – Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei was barred from entering Switzerland over a lack of proper travel documents, police said on Feb 11, as the artist described being deported from Zurich ...

It’s the month of love, and there’s plenty to make your heart swell if you’re an art fan. London’s museums and galleries are in full swing, with shows of everything from impressionism to conceptualism ...