When outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained yesterday at a Beijing airport before a planned flight to Hong Kong, it signaled a more serious government attempt to curb his activities and ...

Last year, the editors of ArtReview magazine named the Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei the most powerful artist in the world. It was an unusual choice. Ai’s varied, scattershot work doesn’t fetch ...

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has created an exhibit that opens Saturday on Alcatraz in the San Francisco bay. WSJ's Monika Auger took at look at it.

This week, the Seattle Art Museum opened the largest-ever U.S. exhibition featuring the work of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Spanning four decades of the artist’s career, Ai ...

The response to the Chinese artist's exhibition on Alcatraz island, when former prisoners of conscience and the families of those still detained sent postcards to Ai ...

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.

“Sacred relationship is from the very beginning,” Ai Weiwei observes. “If you look at the cave paintings or early Chinese objects like jade carving, [you] see animals carry an important ...

Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957) is a celebrated artist and activist whose work examines history, society, and culture. Ai, Rebel offers the rare opportunity to engage with his wide-ranging body of ...