Ai has a genius for incorporating pieces of everyday design into his work as a form of protest at government oppression and corruption, or as a means of questioning our cultural ...
Premiered at the Glastonbury Festival, is a moving and powerful documentary about the horror of political imprisonment, offering insights into the artist’s own struggles and t...
The writer and curator talks about the impact of the enormous social, economic, and political changes in China on the post-Cultural Revolution generation of artists, including th...
This exhibition may be small, but it still packs a powerful punch as Ai Weiwei mixes up his work and others’, the ancient with the modern, the fake with the authentic, and the ...
Ai Weiwei: ‘It’s about humanity’
Ai Weiwei is showing at four New York City galleries simultaneously. To mark this, Royal Academy America hosted an informal even...
This exhibition of more than 300 works explores the formal similarities and conceptual differences between Warhol and Ai – from their approaches to studio practice, their inter...
A rebel, an iconoclast and a playful symbolist – Ai Weiwei is all these things, but surely history will remember him as one of China’s most influential dissident artists. Cur...
The Brooklyn Museum, New York 18 April – 10 August 2014
by KATE TIERNAN
The Brooklyn Museum marks the final stop on this North American touring exhibition by Chinese artist A...
This exhibition features Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s monumental installation Fragments (2005)
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Working with a team of skilled carpenters, Ai turned pillars and beams of ironw...
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London 11 October 2010–2 May 2011
By CAROLINE MENEZES
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, with his Sunflower Seeds exhibition, has set a mind-twisting g...
... Ai Weiwei’s 2019 iron sculpture Fly is a massive root of the endangered Brazilian Pequi Vinagreiro tree, cast in two pieces and joined together, resulting in a form that...
... the promotion of British cultural values abroad; and in the embrace, in the west, of artists who openly criticise rival ideologies. (The extent to which Ai Weiwei has beco...
... Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne; Salvador Dalí and Marcel Duchamp, currently at London’s Royal Academy of Arts; Tracey Emin w...
... unknown, combined with the UAE’s dreadful track record for the treatment of migrant workers, it is surprising to see that Ai Weiwei has allowed a work of his to be prese...
... – well, I just gave up and enjoyed the greenery. Ai Weiwei’s wallpaper roll-out of citizens trapped in an earthquake; the myriad-artist Shanghai Contemporary Art Archi...
... know, Chinese artist and vocal critic of the People’s Republic of China Ai Weiwei became a western cause célèbre in 2011, when he was placed under house arrest in Beij...
... in Xinjiang, graduating from the Xinjiang Institute of the Arts in 2003. Later, he attended the Beijing Film Academy. He was formerly an assistant to Ai Weiwei, but struck...
... Prince! Those Ai Weiwei pots! A standout Jeff Wall – total trophy since his move to Gagosian! And, if not his best, the requisite Christopher Wool. Things pick up, thoug...
... used to work at the Serpentine (where Zeller & Moye worked with Ai Weiwei on the 2012 pavilion) and had worked with Zeller & Moye. There was something about their aestheti...
The art dealer talks about his current exhibition, Bonheur de Vivre, which he considers ‘a precis of 20th-century beauty’, a return to art that focuses on passion, joy, happi...
