Ai Weiwei on creating political art in the Trump era: ‘Be part of the change’ June 27, 2017 Ai Weiwei, internationally known artist and activist, is at the Hirshhorn Museum for his new exhibit ...

In the documentary, ‘Ai Weiwei’s Turandot’, screening at Hot Docs 2025, revolutionary artist Ai Weiwei takes his first steps in making an opera. ... make art, and be political.

It is a reference to the forced political exile of Mr. Weiwei’s father, the beloved Chinese poet Ai Qing, who was sent to labor on a farm in Northeast China. Political dissidence and art history ...

In more than 130 works, the artist’s largest ever exhibition in the U.S. reflects on his political engagement from the 1980s to today.

Ai Weiwei will realize a new work in the Ukraine about the country's ongoing war with Russia. Titled Three Perfectly ...

But walking into the Vito Schnabel Gallery, I was enthralled by the artist's playful repurposing of — of all things — Lego blocks. The same plastic bricks that I'd used to mak ...

"Ai Weiwei's work thinks big: big politics, big history, big issues, big materials," said Charles Mudede in The Stranger. So it's fitting that the first U.S. exhibition of Ai's art in more than a ...

For part of the year, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei works in a cavernous 30,000-square-foot studio on the underground levels of a former 19th-century brewery in Berlin.

Recently, Lego bricks have become a favored Ai medium. Appearing at the Seattle Asian Art Museum is Ai's larger-than-life 2022 Lego reproduction of Claude Monet's famous Water Lilies #1 .

As an example of art's power to upend political realities, however, a work like that "borders on farce," said Louis Bury in Art in America.Ai, who currently lives as an exile in Europe, seems to ...