La última vez que el disidente y artista visual Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara recorrió las calles de Cuba como un hombre libre ...

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

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 ...

We look at what exactly the artist's monumental new Manchester exhibition highlights, and why it features so many buttons and lego pieces. Ai Weiwei has never been one to shy away from making noise, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At a certain point in Ai Weiwei: Button Up! at Manchester’s Aviva studios, it came to me that I must be ...

The dead may be migrants who drowned during a hazardous crossing, since nearby hangs a 49-meter-long dinghy carrying hundreds of similar figures alongside unfortunates who have fallen into an ...

In the introduction to a selection of his plays published in 1991, the English writer Michael Frayn tried to diagnose what went wrong with Balmoral, his 1987 farce in which the British monarch’s ...

For decades, firms have sharpened competitive advantage by observing their customers through surveys, user groups, complaints, and usage data—all of which has increasingly been enabled by the rise of ...

Aviva Studios in Manchester, part of Factory International, is a vast warehouse space. Renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has spent the last four years planning how to utilise this immense ...

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.

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 ...

Acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei has often encountered censorship and surveillance throughout his career. Earlier this year, he published an extended essay "On Censorship." Here & Now's Scott ...