So it isn’t terribly surprising that Ai Weiwei—conceptual artist, videomaker, and activist—should be ... Free speech seems ...

By Zoey Poll For part of the year, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei works in a cavernous 30,000-square-foot studio on the underground levels of a former 19th-century brewery in Berlin.

Legendary dissident artist Ai Weiwei is taking over Seattle Art Museum (and beyond) for an extended run, showcasing sharply ...

“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.

Seattle Art Museum (SAM) is showcasing an exhibit by contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei from March 12 to Sept. 7, titled “Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei.” ...

UPDATED to note producer and executive producer of Ai Weiwei’s Turandot. CPH:DOX, the renowned documentary festival in ...

The Seattle Art Museum opened a major retrospective in 2025 for Ai Weiwei, one of the world’s most well-known and celebrated artists.

Ai Weiwei, the contemporary artist, documentarian and activist, is having a retrospective exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum.

This week, the Seattle Art Museum opened the largest-ever U.S. exhibition featuring the work of Chinese artist and activist ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was recently barred from entering Switzerland after he was unable to produce a visitor's visa. According to an Instagram post by Ai, he spent the evening of February 10 on ...

The film follows Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he makes his debut as an opera director at the Rome Opera House, ...

“Ai Weiwei’s first operatic staging (direction, sets, costumes and videos) is controversial, a gigantic, enjoyable funfair where the artist’s radical and intellectual quirks are displayed in ...