Despite enormous threats to their life and work, the writer and the artist remain steadfastly courageous and optimistic. Here ...

Ai Weiwei, one of the greatest artists in the world and designer of the exclusive Chinese New Year cover adorning the ...

For internationally acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei, art is inherently political. An outspoken critic of China’s ...

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 ...

Ahead of his major show at London’s Design Museum, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has unveiled a homage to Impressionist painter, Claude Monet, constructed entirely of Lego. The piece, titled Water Lilies ...

An artist that isn’t an activist is a dead artist.” He’s viewed as one of today’s most influential contemporary artists. And ...

In one of the more unexpected brand-artist tie-ups that we’ve seen, Ai Weiwei has designed an artwork made from safety jackets, which – appropriately enough – Hornbach customers can build themselves ...

These are stories of trauma and recovery, art as politics and politics as art, and lessons spread across books that will make ...

VENICE, Italy--Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei warns against hubris in what he calls “such a troublesome time” with his first glass sculpture, made on the Venetian island of Murano ...

I will continue to fight for freedom of expression and for the right of every artist to express themselves freely, wherever ...

A documentary reflects on artist Ai Weiwei's battle against the lawsuit thrust upon him by the Chinese government in an effort to silence him. Recommendations Slide 1 of 15 ...

Ai Weiwei, the notorious conceptual artist, does not so much direct films, he designs them. His latest documentary is about his own arrest and incarceration for suspected tax evasion, which became ...