Ai sits in a replica of the prison cell in which he was detained in 2011. No one in China, he has said, "has a solid belief or trust in society." Gilles Sabrie/LightRocket/Getty Images Ai Weiwei ...

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 ...

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.

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.