The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei says he faced a vote of no confidence by the Academicians at the Royal Academy of ...

He has been jailed, tracked and threatened by China’s government. What was it like pay a visit home? As he publishes a polemic about surveillance and state control, the artist relives a momentous trip ...

The artist talked about censorship in his native China as well as the West in an interview with The Guardian.

The 68-year-old plans a "large-scale show" at Aviva Studios for his first show in the north of England.

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Presented by Nature Morte in New Delhi, globally acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei's solo exhibition comprises his notable works alongside new commissions inspired by Indian modernist painters.

Ai’s “Water Lilies” immediately differentiates itself from Monet’s work, the most apparent differences being the medium and ...

Dissident Ai Weiwei hits out at Western hypocrisy over raising human rights with China - Artist said the West is ‘not even ...

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has spoken about the experience of quietly returning to his homeland for the first time in ...

Ai Weiwei, one of the worlds most influential contemporary artists, is in India for his first solo exhibition at Nature Morte ...

(Adds missing word in the title of Ai Weiwei’s new book, "On Censorship", in paragraph 5) By Catarina Demony and Gerhard Mey ...

BERLIN — This is the final weekend to see Ai Weiwei: Evidence at the Martin-Gropius-Bau museum in Berlin. The German exhibition is a sweeping survey of mostly recent work that occupies 32,000 square ...