But walking into the Vito Schnabel Gallery, I was enthralled by the artist's playful repurposing of — of all things — Lego ...

By Zoey Poll For part of the year, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei works in a cavernous 30,000 ... 1,001 volunteers from China to the Documenta art exhibition in Kassel, Germany.

But the most powerful aspects of Ai Weiwei’s Turandot are the many contemplations on art itself. Weiwei says succinctly that “Everything is art. Everything is politics.” Michael Fabiano ...

You might expect a world-famous artist like Ai Weiwei — who has poked critically at value systems and institutions for decades with his provocative, interrogating art — to be more bombastic.

"Ai Weiwei will never explain his artwork. That's not something he does," said Foong Ping, SAM's curator of Chinese Art. She organized the 40 year retrospective into two parts. Part one is called ...

“I’m like a shattered mirror,” the artist Ai Weiwei tells W one morning in a cozy corner of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), where he’s mounting his first U.S. retrospective in over a decade.

"Ai Weiwei's work thinks big: big politics, big history, big issues, big materials," said Charles Mudede in The Stranger. So it's fitting that the first U.S. exhibition of Ai's art in more than a ...

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 ...

The man has a history of targeting significant works of art, according to authorities. This photo shows the Ai Weiwei sculpture that was destroyed at the art exhibit over the weekend in September ...

A vandal smashed up a sculpture by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei during the private opening ... to be known for targeting important works of art in the past. It is still unclear how the ...