In many ways, art cannot be separated from the political environment of its time. As discussed in previous columns, artwork is used as a vehicle for protest everywhere—from Ai Weiwei’s ...

The meme was coined to poke fun at China’s censorship regime, which has clamped down on humour as a form of protest ... Ai Weiwei's major retrospective in Seattle is a timely and provocative ...

And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, a film directed by Maxim Derevianko about the artist ... men after they protest the killing ...

Over the past several decades, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has become ... Weiwei’s work was a call to join his protest and fight systemic injustice. Ai Weiwei, however, was not pleased with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A porcelain sculpture by Ai Weiwei was intentionally broken by a man during the opening of the Chinese artist and activist’s new exhibition at Palazzo Fava in Bologna, northern Italy ...

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.