The Seattle Art Museum opened a major retrospective in 2025 for Ai Weiwei, one of the world’s most well-known and celebrated artists.

By Zoey Poll For part of the year, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei works in a cavernous 30,000 ... 1,001 volunteers from China to the Documenta art exhibition in Kassel, Germany.

Legendary dissident artist Ai Weiwei is taking over Seattle Art Museum (and beyond) for an extended run, showcasing sharply ...

“I’m like a shattered mirror,” the artist Ai Weiwei tells W one morning in a cozy corner of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), where he’s mounting his first U.S. retrospective in over a decade.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s US retrospective showcases his art and activism, challenging authoritarianism and championing free ...

But he’s also revitalized Chinese art with his constant currents of passion, humor, and surprise. So it isn’t terribly ...

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Ai Weiwei, the contemporary artist, documentarian and activist, is having a retrospective exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum.

A vandal smashed up a sculpture by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei during the private opening ... to be known for ...

Ai Weiwei first deployed Lego bricks as an art medium in 2014 when he used them to create portraits of political prisoners. Now a key element of his practice, Lego will also feature heavily in the ...

This week, the Seattle Art Museum opened the largest-ever U.S. exhibition featuring the work of Chinese artist and activist ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was recently barred from entering Switzerland after he was unable to produce a visitor's visa. According to an Instagram post by Ai, he spent the evening of February 10 on ...