Ai Weiwei emerged as a vital instigator in Chinese cultural development, an architect of Chinese modernism, and one of the nation's most vocal political commentators. [1] Ai Weiwei encapsulates political conviction and poetry in his many sculptures, photographs, and public works.

Ai Weiwei emerged as a vital instigator in Chinese cultural development, an architect of Chinese modernism, and one of the nation's most vocal political commentators. Ai Weiwei...

Ai Weiwei became a leading activist calling for government transparency on student deaths following the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Ai initiated a Citizens’ Investigation which sought to...

Ai Weiwei with the word "FUCK" sunburned onto his chest, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 2000, part of the Beijing Photographs series, 1993-2003, Ai Weiwei, Chinese, b. 1957, black and white photograph, Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio, ©️ Ai Weiwei. To achieve the sunburn, Ai wore a white shirt with the four letters cut out from the chest and lay down in the sun at his studio in Caochangdi, Beijing.

In this exhibition of new works created specifically for Alcatraz, Ai responded to the island’s layered legacy as a 19th-century military fortress, a notorious federal penitentiary, a site of...

In this series of works, Ai Weiwei reconfigures furniture (such as stools, tables, benches, pillars and doors) into “useless” objects, without altering the original patina or using any outside...

Ai Weiwei is not only one of the most important contemporary artists; he is also an untiring activist and critic of authoritarian systems. "In Search of Humanity" presents a comprehensive...

The issue sheds light on the concerns that lie at the heart of Ai Weiwei's work: antiquity and contemporaneity, East and West, traditional arts and conceptual art, conservation and...

As an architect, sculptor, photographer, blogger, twitterer, interview artist and political activist, Weiwei acts as a seismograph for current social problems, and blends the boundaries between...

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