A show now at the Seattle Art Museum is the largest in the U.S. in the 40-year career of the renowned Chinese artist.

Jo Metson Scott “Honestly, I think it’s a useless building,” says Ai Weiwei in mid-October ... China’s most famous dissident artist—now unable to return to his homeland, lest ...

To Ai Weiwei, there was also another ... For the 2007 Documenta—a famous exhibition of contemporary art held every five years in Kassel, Germany—Ai contributed two pieces.

Seattle Art Museum showcases over 100 works by Ai Weiwei, who creates big artistic statements out of things like bicycles and LEGO. #k5evening ...

"It has come at a time when Ai Weiwei has been particularly outspoken against the ... He is perhaps China's most famous living artist, and played a role in the design of the iconic "Bird's Nest" ...

Gilles Sabrie/LightRocket/Getty Images Ai Weiwei has never been to Alcatraz ... internationally famous and eclectic artist, and his multi-media compositions are perhaps best known for their ...

Ai Weiwei is one of the most famous and influential living artists. He works with film, photography, installation, and music. He also writes and works as an art curator. Weiwei was born in Beijing ...

This artwork from 2019, Illumination, is a colorful reworking of Ai Weiwei’s famous photograph of his arrest in 2009. Standing at over ten feet tall, Illumination is a mirror selfie the artist ...

But the repeating pattern of intertwining colourful forms did not come from the hand of the 19th-century British designer and leader of the Arts & Crafts movement, but rather from pioneering ...

The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei (March 12–September 7, 2025), the largest-ever US exhibition of works by the globally renowned conceptual artist. Ai, Rebel surveys Ai Weiwei's career over four ...

And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, a film directed by Maxim Derevianko about the artist’s production of the classic Puccini opera.