Artist and activist Ai Weiwei wants the world to pay close attention to a recent British court ruling regarding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange—so he’s taken to his treadmill. Ai’s social media ...

A singular talent, Ai Weiwei has always had a knack for inserting himself into the issues of the day. Easily the world’s best-known political artist, who taps the river of discontent bubbling up at ...

For his first solo exhibition with Lisson New York, Ai Weiwei populates the gallery with felled, cast-iron tree trunks, nearly sixteen feet in length, and a series of iron root sculptures set against ...

Hugely successful Chinese artist Ai Weiwei couldn’t, to put it coarsely, get arrested by Lego. Known for political art, he had last asked the company for a bulk order last fall, and they turned him ...