As a critic of the Chinese Communist Party, the artist’s ‘risk has real meaning’, but he has ‘never excelled in nuance’ ...

Acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei has often encountered censorship and surveillance throughout his career.

Ai Weiwei, I suspect, would like me to feel guilt, and as I walk out of his new exhibition, guilt is what I feel. Not, though, over my complicity in Britain’s imperial deeds, or our more recent ...

The groundbreaking, exiled Chinese artist builds a hopeful new life—and a new studio, in the Portuguese countryside By Jay Cheshes Photographs by Jo Metson Scott Ai Weiwei’s relocation to Portugal was ...

The artist’s latest show is a staggering takedown of colonial history, warfare and the migrant crisis, featuring buttons by the tonne and richly perfumed tea History has repeated itself all over Ai ...

Acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei has hailed Manchester for "achieving something amazing" by creating the city's flagship Aviva Studios. The Chinese activist, who has created political sculptures, ...

A quote from George Santayana’s book The Life of Reason feels pertinent right now. “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it”. As you walk around the Aviva Studios’ vast warehouse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ai Weiwei's Button Up! is mounted across a single vast space at Aviva Studios, Manchester - REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja Ai Weiwei, I ...

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei is staging his first durational performance, “Sewing a Button,” in Manchester on July 3 Ai reenacts the conditions of his 2011 detention in the 24-hour-long live piece, ...

I wouldn’t usually watch a man slowly pace a room for forty minutes. But what’s ‘usual’ seems entirely irrelevant when that man is Ai Weiwei, one of the most famous contemporary artists in the world.

The world-renowned Chinese contemporary artist and dissident who scattered millions of handmade ceramic sunflower seeds across the floor of the Tate Gallery’s Turbine Hall is creating a secret ...