TASCHEN releases a fully revised monograph, 'Ai Weiwei. Updated Edition,' which builds upon the initial volume published a decade ago.

Ai Weiwei, a 68-year-old Chinese dissident known for his activist art, discusses the pervasive censorship he faces in China and similarities observed in the West. He addresses the impact of AI on ...

Three of Ai's latest pieces made for his debut solo show in India lack his signature outrage that he has mastered in ...

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 ...

While visually striking, Ai Weiwei's work in his debut solo India show feel detached from the turbulence of contemporary ...

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

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 ...

Ai Weiwei says he says he spends a lot of time watching animals. AI WEIWEI: I think when you live with animals, you learn a lot. And they are often more sensible or helpful, are highly intelligent in ...

The World Wildlife Fund is honoring the Year of the Tiger—and its initiative to double wild tiger numbers—by teaming with twelve artists, including Raqib Shaw, Reena Saini Kallat, and Gary Hume, for ...

On Censorship is both a bitter – if, at only 88 pages, far too sketchy – critique of the role of censorship in an authoritarian state ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been missing for 12 days without official charge from the Chinese government. In protest, artists and activists all over the world are planning a global sit-in this Sunday ...

Ai Weiwei returned to China in December 2025 for the first time since 2015, drawing attention through interviews in which he contrasted the ease of life in China with what he described as bureaucratic ...