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 ...

Politics; June 7, 2013; Ai Weiwei: Political Art at the Venice Biennale Ai Weiwei: Political Art at the Venice Biennale. Six dioramas present key moments of the eighty-one-day imprisonment of the ...

Ai Weiwei is probably China’s most noteworthy contemporary artist and political activist, but his art often eludes the attention of the public, as that part of his life is overshadowed by his role as ...

"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 ...

A statement from the museum, which displayed works by Ai Weiwei and Goya, attributes the closure to disruption caused by ...

Ai is better-known now than ever after the release in 2012 of a critically acclaimed full-length documentary on his life. A new documentary making the rounds chronicles his legal battles against ...

MH: An artist and a voice for freedom… this Week on Firing Line. AI: I think every art, if it’s relevant, is political. The son of a poet persecuted during Mao’s Cultural Revolution, artist ...

Ai Weiwei, China’s most famous dissident and artist, has called art that can be easily replicated by artificial intelligence (AI) “meaningless”. What I find most striking about this comment ...

“I believe, as Ai Weiwei does,” explains Costantini, “that all art is political. In these dramatic years we’re living through, if someone paints landscapes, I believe it means they’re ...

WASHINGTON — Chinese artist and provocateur Ai Weiwei relishes the symbolism of displaying his portraits of political dissidents and activists in Washington at a time when human rights and ...