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

Ai Weiwei: It made me a individual and I was always having to make my judgement independently because the mainstream will never accept somebody like me. Weiwei got out of China at the first ...

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 ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is internationally known both for his artworks and for the fact that he has been detained by the Chinese government since 2011. With the seven works in @Large, Ai uses the ...

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

In 2015, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei clashed with the Danish toymaking firm Lego after the company refused to fulfill a bulk order of plastic bricks for an installation piece he was planning.

Ai Wei Wei takes on L.A. w/ 3 exhibitions: solo show at the Marciano Art Foundation, inaugural exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch’s new gallery + sculptures at his agency's UTA gallery. His themes of ...

Ai Weiwei Studio/Courtesy Public Art Fund “Public Art Fund is all about … making this city a platform — an open platform — for free expression,” says director and curator Baume.

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.