Mark Hudson talks to China’s most provocative exile about his new exhibition, the triple standards of the West, the crisis of ...

DeepSeek, a new Chinese chatbot, alarmed American political circles this week. Now, Chinese dissident artists like Ai Weiwei ...

The AI’s responses to queries related to dissident artists and artistic freedom were terse and biased in favor of the Chinese ...

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Directed by Maxim Derevianko 77 min - Italy World Premiere - Subtitled Revolutionary Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei was not especially knowledgeable about opera, although he had been an extra ...

Ai Weiwei spent 12 years in the United States, right when the 1980s AIDS crisis was at its height. The artist often referred to the health crisis in his works from that period.

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The seizing of Ai Weiwei at Beijing airport by Chinese police on 3 April 2011 must count as the most famous arrest of any artist ever. While the ostensible charge was tax evasion, Ai’s ...

16.5 x 16.5 x 16.5 in. (41.9 x 41.9 x 41.9 cm.) London, Tate, The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds, exh. cat., 2010-2011, p. 63, no. 47 (another unique ...

Led by major retrospectives of Ai Weiwei, Wayne Thiebaud, Ruth Asawa, Rashid Johnson and more, these shows illuminate new ways to appreciate top artists, past and present.