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

The Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei quietly returned to China last month, after spending a decade in exile in Europe.

Ai Weiwei’s new Manchester exhibition uses buttons to trace imperial history, industrial labor, and China’s relationship with the West.

Ahead of his visit for the India Art Fair next month, the Chinese dissident artist who’s known to call out power worldwide ...

Ai Weiwei returned to China quietly last month, ending a ten-year absence that began when he left the country in 2015. The ...

The show will have Ai’s celebrated toy-brick compositions, in which he interlocks bricks to create monumental pixel-like surfaces that reference art history, political events, portraits, and moments ...

China isn’t the only country imposing limits on creative expression, argues the provocative artist ...

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei opened his first solo exhibition in India last week at the capital’s Nature Morte art ...

The first solo exhibition in India by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei opened Thursday, featuring sculpture, installation ...

Ai told Reuters he received the notice from the tax authorities that described his title as the “actual controller” for Beijing Fake Cultural Development Ltd., which has helped produce Ai’s ...

Installation view, Ai Weiwei at Meijer Gardens: Natural State (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — I’ve had the recent good fortune to visit a number of art exhibitions ...

For the past 10 years the dissident artist has lived in Germany, the UK and now Portugal, never once setting foot in his native country, where people with far less controversial pasts have faced ...