Ai Weiwei

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Ai Weiwei Creates Special Edition Artworks for Public Art Fund, Exclusively Available on eBay

A collaboration between eBay for Charity and Public Art Fund (PAF), 100% of proceeds will benefit PAF’s Ai Weiwei exhibition, Good Fences Make Good Neighbors.

Art

Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron Turn Surveillance into a Gimmick

Their new installation at the Park Avenue Armory features drones and facial-recognition technology, yet seems to have no politics at all.

Art

Weighing Ai Weiwei's Work Amid Butterflies and Botanical Life

Does the political content of his art translate to a botanical garden and sculpture park in Michigan?

Art

Ai Weiwei Floats a New Project About the Refugee Crisis

Conceived in response to the current humanitarian disaster, Law of the Journey is rooted in the artist's research while on location at refugee camps in Greece

Art

15 Artists, Shows, and Works Censored in 2016

Here's a look at some of this year’s acts of art censorship.

Art

Ai Weiwei Explores the Scale of Crisis in Four Large Installations

Four Ai Weiwei shows across Manhattan explore the aesthetics of crisis and the deluge that might consume us.

Art

From Fluxus to Selfies, Photographs that Blur the Performative and the Real

LONDON — Five figures stand cocooned in the radiating steel cables of the Brooklyn Bridge — four of them are naked and covered in painted spots, hanging out beneath a banner that reads “SELF-OBLITERATION.”

Opinion

Ai Weiwei’s Photo Reenacting a Child Refugee's Death Should Not Exist

I see this image and I wonder.

In Brief

Ai Weiwei Withdraws Art from Two Danish Museums in Protest of Controversial Immigration Law

Ai Weiwei has withdrawn his art from two museums in Denmark to protest a law passed yesterday by the Danish parliament viewed by many as an anti-immigration measure.

Art

Paris Department Store Kite Display Marks New Low for Ai Weiwei

PARIS — Like a good student of the bottomless pit of fashion, Ai Weiwei has delivered big on his latest class assignment.

Art

A Portrait of a Chinese Ghost Town on the Verge of New Life

The district of Kangbashi in Inner Mongolia, China, is famous for its emptiness.

Art

Ai Weiwei Splits a 400-Year-Old Temple Between Two Beijing Galleries

BEIJING — Between two Beijing galleries, Ai Weiwei has divided a 400-year-old temple’s 1,500 worn, wooden pieces.