Ahead of his major show at London’s Design Museum, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has unveiled a homage to Impressionist painter, Claude Monet, constructed entirely of Lego. The piece, titled Water Lilies ...

The first Ai Weiwei retrospective in the U.S. in over a decade is now on display at the Seattle Art Museum. The show features ...

The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei” runs through Sept. 7 at Seattle Art Museum. “Ai Weiwei: Water Lilies” opens at the Seattle Asian Art Museum on March 19, and “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (Bronze) ...

The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei (March 12–September 7, 2025), the largest-ever US exhibition of works by the globally renowned conceptual artist. Ai, Rebel surveys Ai Weiwei's career over four ...

Ai Weiwei was commissioned for the artwork, titled History of Bombs, which coats the surfaces of the museum, marking the first time an artist has been given the opportunity to overhaul the space ...

A vandal smashed up a sculpture by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei during the private opening of his exhibition in Italy. Footage from CCTV cameras – published on his Instagram account ...

And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, a film directed by Maxim Derevianko about the artist’s production of the classic Puccini opera.

The film follows Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he makes his debut as an opera director at the Rome Opera House, with a radical interpretation of Puccini’s century-old masterpiece.

The groundbreaking, exiled Chinese artist builds a hopeful new life—and a new studio, in the Portuguese countryside By Jay Cheshes Photographs by Jo Metson Scott Ai Weiwei’s relocation to ...