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 ...

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 Chinese artist goes large on colonialism, a group show tackles a fun theme and Xanthe Somers’ stoneware fools the eye – all in your weekly dispatch Ai Weiwei: Button Up! If any artist can fill the ...

Ai Weiwei, one of the largest forces in contemporary art, is warning about the dangers of censorship around the world, and why it's getting worse in the West. "My reaction to censorship, it's very ...

CART Department is bringing “Ai Weiwei LEGO Story” to Free Parking at 16 Morton Street from April 24 to May 3, featuring the artist’s rare BMW LEGO art car alongside his famous ‘Zodiac’ and ‘After’ ...

“How long can you silence the very thing that makes you human?” asks our Editor-in-Chief Hakim Bishara in his review of Ai Weiwei’s new book On Censorship. The dissident Chinese artist’s “small but ...

HILO >> Saturday’s memorial service for the late kumu hula Nalani Kanaka‘ole-Zane was a celebration of life that ran the gamut of human emotion with remembrances eliciting both tears and laughter.

Last October, I mentioned Ai Weiwei, but was perhaps insufficiently sympathetic. At best, his art bursts with loud, defiant, and impossible to ignore courage. He has detractors, for sure, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses during a photocall, amongst art pieces displayed in his exhibition "Ai Weiwei: making ...

Nalani Kanaka‘ole-Zane, revered kumu hula of Halau o Kekuhi, cultural matriarch and veteran judge of Merrie Monarch Festival hula competitions, died Saturday in Hilo. She was 79. A fifth-generation ...

HILO, Hawaii (Island News) – Nalani Kanaka’ole, a fifth-generation reverend kumu hula and cultural matriarch, passed away at 79-years-old, officials with The Island Agency confirmed on Monday.

Nalani Kanaka‘ole-Zane, revered kumu hula of Halau o Kekuhi, cultural matriarch and veteran judge of Merrie Monarch Festival hula competitions, died Saturday in Hilo. She was 79. “It’s a tremendous ...