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.

Who was going to lead MoMA now? Abramović had recently had lunch with the museum’s current director, Glenn Lowry, who would ...

Perhaps the most famous contemporary example is China’s imprisonment and torture of artist-activist Ai Weiwei in 2011, who has been living in exile since 2015. In Russia’s Josef Stalin era, ...

Lonnie G. Bunch III has never been afraid to address white supremacy. The leader of the Smithsonian Institution’s 21 museums ...

This week he opened ‘I Do Not Come to You by Chance’ in London, his first in the city and the exhibition promises to showcase not only new paintings but also to celebrate the artists’ home city of ...

In a 1949 exhibition, a nude self portrait by FN Souza, one of India’s most famous artists ... from the long arms of censorship. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, has constantly been at the receiving ...

International galleries like David Zwirner, Galleria Continua and Lisson Gallery, too, will aim to sell big — Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei sold two works for over US$750,000 (nearly ₹6.5 ...

“When China hosts the Olympics again, it is no longer the China back in 2008,” dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said in an email to The AP. Ai helped design the famous Bird’s Nest stadium ...