Ai Weiwei spent 12 years in the United States, right when the 1980s AIDS crisis was at its height. The artist often referred to the health crisis in his works from that period. During his studies ...

Following the shattering of an Ai Weiwei sculpture, Beth Scott looks back at the artist's own act of destruction ...

Ai Weiwei, known for his witty and conceptual nose-thumbing at shibboleths both abroad and in his native Communist China, is one of the world’s most enduring art stars. His consistent knack for cheeky ...

“Honestly, I think it’s a useless building,” says Ai Weiwei in mid-October, talking outside his new studio, an imposing wood-framed structure nearing completion on a barren stretch of ...

Forge Project is notably home to Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s sole work of architecture in the U.S. (Courtesy Forge Project) ...

This week The New York Times also published a piece on the subject, corroborating Ai’s account and shedding further light on the current precarious situation that he is in. For one, since I last ...

Artist Ai Weiwei has said his new exhibition has been cancelled after he posted comments on social media referencing the Israel-Gaza conflict. The Chinese artist and activist's exhibition was due ...

I write about technology here on Forbes and elsewhere. The shirt below is from Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei featuring a quote about “Life is Art” that appeared when I searched for AI ...

Manitobans will have another chance to view an art installation made of more than a thousand bicycles ...

ROME (AP) — A man smashed a sculpture by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei during the private opening of his exhibition in the northern Italian city of Bologna, in an act of vandalism that ...

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A vandal smashed up a sculpture by Chinese dissident ...

Perhaps no one knows this better than the artist Ai Weiwei, the freshly bona fide political dissident whose current “detention” in a Chinese prison qualifies him as the contemporary art world's ...