DeepSeek, a new Chinese chatbot, alarmed American political circles this week. Now, Chinese dissident artists like Ai Weiwei ...

The AI’s responses to queries related to dissident artists and artistic freedom were terse and biased in favor of the Chinese ...

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Led by major retrospectives of Ai Weiwei, Wayne Thiebaud, Ruth Asawa, Rashid Johnson and more, these shows illuminate new ways to appreciate top artists, past and present.

Artist Ai Weiwei has accused the producers of a film he worked on of cutting his part because they didn't want to upset the Chinese authorities. Ai directed a segment of Berlin I Love You - but ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses for photographers at his exhibition in Mexico City Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has unveiled a new exhibition featuring Lego portraits of Mexican students who ...

Ai Weiwei, “Last U.S. Soldier Leaving Afghanistan” (2022), toy bricks (LEGO), ~104 3/4 X 104 3/4 inches (266 x 266 cm) Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic.

including the second-class National Youth Arts Award, Sichuan outstanding works Prize, and the second Asian art award. He studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Preparatory School. Notably, he ...

miniature golf! tattoos! — at galleries and much more. If you don’t know Ai Weiwei from his Lego “paintings,” perhaps you remember when he filled a museum hall with millions of porcelain ...

The response to the Chinese artist's exhibition on Alcatraz island, when former prisoners of conscience and the families of those still detained sent postcards to Ai ...

Ai Weiwei spent 12 years in the United States, right when the 1980s AIDS crisis was at its height. The artist often referred to the health crisis in his works from that period.

16.5 x 16.5 x 16.5 in. (41.9 x 41.9 x 41.9 cm.) London, Tate, The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds, exh. cat., 2010-2011, p. 63, no. 47 (another unique ...