Tagged Ai Weiwei

04.02.2016

Going Weiwei Back

A new monograph explores Ai Weiwei’s career phases up to his recent release from Chinese custody…

11.07.2014

The Chinese artist didn’t tell Dover Street Market that he was going to pour buckets of paint all over its clothes…

03.28.2014

He’d really like to attend his largest solo show ever, at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, opening April 3. He’s asking very politely in this video…

12.19.2013

It seems like just yesterday we were talking about François Pinault going to jail. Now it’s Ai Weiwei who’s headed to Alcatraz…

09.02.2013

Although artist Ai Weiwei has been barred from leaving China since his “detention” in 2011, his message is still getting out…

05.22.2013

It’s scathing, subversive, and rather excruciating. But cut him some slack — he’s not Psy and this isn’t K-pop…

05.16.2013

Watch Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei give a haircut to Beijing blogger last week during a lobster dinner…

11.21.2012

While not as riveting as his parody of Gangnam Style, Ai Weiwei’s latest video project is nonetheless screwy…

10.26.2012

You can bet when the outspoken Chinese artist and dissident makes a parody, it’s going to be thinly veiled criticism of the government…