NewsPublic art
New public art project in London will show works by Ai Weiwei and Eddie Peake on Europe's largest billboard
The digital art platform CIRCA will commission a new artist every month to create a work that reflects on the year 2020
InterviewAi Weiwei
Ai Weiwei: If you do not question Chinese power, you are complicit with it—that goes for art organisations too
Dissident artist says that European museums in China are betraying their own values
Newscoronavirus
CoroNation: Ai Weiwei releases lockdown documentary about Wuhan
Film aims to show “surveillance, ideological brainwashing, and brute determination used to control every aspect of society” by China’s leaders
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Out of respect for Beirut, huge Hiroshima memorial work moved from Piccadilly Circus
Featurecoronavirus
Significant art emerged from traumas of the past—will the pandemic prove different?
As the coronavirus crisis stretches on, we look at how artists have captured confinement in recent history and what is being done now
ReviewThree to see
Three artist-led initiatives that are chronicling the coronavirus experience
From printed masks made by Ai Weiwei to art historical masterpieces recreated at home
NewsFilms
Ai Weiwei will address the Rohingya refugee crisis in a forthcoming documentary
The Chinese dissident artist and director of Human Flow is also currently filming a new documentary about the coronavirus pandemic
Newscoronavirus
Ai Weiwei: 'This is just a sign of another failure for the Chinese government'
In a two-day digital conference, the artist shares his thoughts on the Communist party’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the role of artists in society
AnalysisArt's Most Popular 2020
Art's Most Popular: here are 2019's most visited shows and museums
Ai Weiwei was a hit in Brazil, records were broken in London and Paris—but is this the final year of museum visitor growth?
AnalysisArt's Most Popular 2020
Here are 2019's most visited contemporary art exhibitions
Jean-Michel Basquiat brought in big crowds in Paris—but who beat him to claim the top spot?
Newscoronavirus
Coronavirus in Italy: Ai Weiwei criticised for 'insensitive' pasta meme and Raphael blockbuster closes
An emergency decree means that all museums in the country are on lock down until 3 April
BlogDiary
Sew unique: last chance to bid for textile works made by artists and prison inmates
NewsAi Weiwei
Ai Weiwei's censored films to go on show in Berlin
The works cannot be shown in China where the dissident artist says his identity has been erased
NewsSculpture Park
Sculpture park to show works by Ai Weiwei and Hans Arp at castle outside Berlin
Established by the founders of the Institute for Artists Estates, Loretta Würtenberger and Daniel Tümpel, the display will open in May at Schlossgut Schwante
AnalysisThe Year in Review 2019
King Tut’s golden year, Koons’s worst: the highs and lows of the art world in 2019
As Notre Dame burned, protestors called the shots and a gold toilet vanished, it was certainly a year to remember
NewsEnvironment
Ai Weiwei confronts Amazon destruction in new film work
Dissident artist is exploring the disappearance of the Brazilian rainforest alongside China’s growing influence in South America
NewsPublic Art Fund
Public Art Fund adds four new members to its board, including Ai Weiwei
Ellen Celli, Andrea Krantz, and Ruthard C. Murphy also join the nonprofit to help bring more free arts programming to New York City
CommentHong Kong
'The future of Hong Kong is already set': Ai Weiwei responds to escalating violence against democracy protesters
In Hong Kong, university campuses have become literal battlegrounds in the protracted clash between police and protesters over the region’s future
NewsProtest
Ai Weiwei was not 'thrown out' of Munich’s Haus der Kunst, artist confirms
Activist was demonstrating in support of workers' rights in the face of cost-cutting at the museum
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see during Berlin Art Week
From an artist occupation in an abandoned building to Ai Weiwei's return to his roots
NewsPolitics
Ai Weiwei: 'Hong Kong is on fire and the world is indifferent'
Chinese artist and activist’s team has been documenting the intensifying anti-government protests over the weekend
BlogIn the frame
Despite Brexit, Ai Weiwei has moved to the UK
NewsAi Weiwei
Puccini gets political: Ai Weiwei to direct opera in Rome about Hong Kong crisis
The Chinese artist will also design the sets and costumes for the production at the Teatro dell'Opera next year
NewsHong Kong
Ai Weiwei sends research team to Hong Kong as demonstrations continue
Speaking to the BBC, Chinese dissident artist says West is unlikely to interfere and he has 'no trust in Britain at all'
NewsCopyright
Ai Weiwei denies his porcelain works borrow from Lebanese artist's prize-winning vases
Raed Yassin says there are "striking similarities" between his ceramic series on the Lebanese civil war and Ai's pieces on the Syria war and refugee crisis
NewsExhibitions
Ai Weiwei creates Lego portraits of missing Mexican students
The installation investigating their disappearance is part of the artist’s show at MUAC
PreviewExhibitions
Ai Weiwei show brings out tensions between Canada and China
Survey at Gardiner Museum ranges from artist’s broken Han Dynasty urn to zodiac signs
NewsCensorship
Ai Weiwei’s contribution to Berlin movie scrapped amid censorship fears
“It was infuriating to find our involvement had been erased,” Ai says
BlogIn the frame
Ai Weiwei says he is heading to the US—but is too old for New York
NewsAi Weiwei
Chinese authorities demolish Ai Weiwei's studio in Beijing
The space is latest artistic casualty in the city's gentrification campaign
NewsArtists
West Coast wave of Ai Weiwei shows puts Chinese artist in Los Angeles spotlight
Activist launches Jeffrey Deitch’s new Hollywood gallery and will show works with talent agency UTA
NewsAi Weiwei
Ai Weiwei remembers the Sichuan earthquake, ten years on
On the anniversary, the artist reflects on the disaster and China's response
BlogIn the frame
Ai Weiwei launches sale of benefit works on World Refugee Day
PreviewExhibitions
Ai Weiwei retraces his father's steps to Marseille in 1929 for new show
Chinese artists unveils new commissions alongside 50 works at the Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
InterviewArt Basel in Hong Kong 2018
Ai Weiwei: ‘I’m like a high-end refugee’
The artist talks about his refugee-orientated show in Hong Kong—and his plans for South America
NewsBiennials & festivals
Ai Weiwei makes triumphant return to Sydney to open biennial
Giant refugee lifeboat one of two works by Chinese dissident artist in the Biennale of Sydney
InterviewExhibitions
Ai Weiwei: 'I'm impressed Qatar wants my show about refugees'
The dissident Chinese artist on why he's tackling the global refugee crisis in his first exhibition in the Gulf
NewsCommissions
Ai Weiwei and Antony Gormley in the running for Treasure Island commissions
The $50m San Francisco Bay redevelopment plan includes several large-scale public sculptures
NewsAi Weiwei
Ai Weiwei to auction cat toy sculpture for Syrian children
Proceeds from Berlin sale, which also includes works by Rosemarie Trockel and Tomás Saraceno, will benefit Kayany Foundation
NewsAi Weiwei
Ai Weiwei stopped from boarding flight from New York to São Paulo
Chinese artist was en route to premiere of his documentary Human Flow when staff wrongly claimed his visa was invalid
NewsAi Weiwei
Lest we forget: Ai Weiwei’s first show in Turkey is a meditation on refugee crisis
Chinese artist’s biggest exhibition to date uses porcelain as a way of bridging Turkey’s historic connections with the East
ArchiveArt fairs
Ai Weiwei digs deep in Warsaw's Brodno Sculpture Park project
Ai Weiwei has created a new work for Warsaw that will be invisible to the public
ArchiveAi Weiwei
Collector Christopher Tsai wants to open first Ai Weiwei museum
The proposed museum would probably be in New York
ArchiveChina
With new party leaders in China, observers wonder whether censorship or liberalisation is on the agenda
Is this change in China a cause for celebration?
ArchiveFilms
"Art in the Twenty-first Century" brings big personalities to the small screen
This US television series offers insights into the history and practice of artists from Marina Abramovic to Ai Weiwei
ArchiveNews
Anish Kapoor rejects China show in support of Ai Weiwei
He has described the Chinese artist's detention as “barbaric”
ArchiveNews
Ai Weiwei assaulted
He was prevented from testifying in defence of activist Tan Zuoren
ArchiveCommissions
Fontainebleau Hotel commissions major artists to become a true 'art hotel'
The Fontainebleau will show works by Turrell, Ai Weiwei and Rauschenberg
Commentcoronavirus
'The real ideological war has just begun and Covid-19 is only the starting point': Ai Weiwei on China's response to the outbreak
The Chinese artist and activist reflects on how authoritarian political systems have been able to tackle the crisis more effectively
Ai Weiwei