Tag: Ai Weiwei

  • Bernard Jacobson: ‘I want to bring people back to art’

    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, happiness, light and colour

  • Andy Warhol – Ai Weiwei

    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 interest in their native societies, their experiments with celebrity, and their popular appeal

  • Risk

    From the work of Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared while crossing the Atlantic in a tiny boat, to the political statements of Ai Weiwei, to Lucy Wood’s improbably dangerous glass trampoline, this exhibition explores risk in art

  • The art behind the activist: Adrian Locke talks about Ai Weiwei

    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. Curator Adrian Locke talks about Ai’s latest exhibition at the Royal…

  • Ai Weiwei: According to What?

    The Brooklyn Museum, New York 18 April – 10 August 2014

  • The Pérez Art Museum of Miami, Miami

    In contrast, the Detroit Museum is struggling to raise the millions needed to rescue its collection from the quagmire of city bankruptcy, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art is licking its wounds from the boisterous board resignation of bold-name…

  • Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China

    In the mid-1980s and 90s, as China distanced itself from the policies of Mao Zedong, and his successors became more willing to engage with the outside world, Chinese contemporary art began to appear with increasing frequency in important international exhibitions.…

  • Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950

    The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC 24 October 2013 – 26 May 2014

  • Our voice as protagonist – a meeting with Tania Bruguera

    Bruguera, who was born in Cuba in 1968, now divides her time between New York and Havana. Her work came to prominence following her series Homenaje a Ana Mendieta, recreations of body performances and objects in tribute to her compatriot.…

  • Wang Keping

    Ben Brown Fine Arts, London 17 October – 29 November 2013