In October, Ai will work with the Public Art Fund to present ... Chinese artist and provocateur Ai Weiwei relishes the symbolism of displaying his portraits of political dissidents and activists ...

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you need Ai Weiwei’s Turandot to remind you to be loud, make art, and be political. Because art is politics, and art is necessary.

It is a reference to the forced political exile of Mr. Weiwei’s father, the beloved Chinese poet Ai Qing, who was sent to labor on a farm in Northeast China. Political dissidence and art history ...

On the political possibilities in Ai's art "A lot of [Ai's] artwork is about ... day out it was not a difficult thing to do to film with Weiwei in Beijing or in other places we were going for ...

Art world movers and shakers have ... These were the events that made Ai Weiwei the world’s most important political artist, and it was at this point that Ai Weiwei was imprisoned.

Westerners are often criticized for looking at Chinese art through a narrow political lens. Ask an American to name a Chinese artist, and the response is most likely Ai Weiwei, whose brand of ...

The artists 'political' work counter balances ... kind of sloppy thinking that is dominant throughout the art world and the work of Ai Weiwei is a good case in point. For his retrospective at ...

By Zoey Poll For part of the year, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei works in a cavernous ... I mostly look at political news, not art. There aren’t any arguments happening in art today.

Ai Weiwei, China’s most famous dissident ... prompts another important question: how can art contribute to political conversations in distinctive ways? In his new book, Artists Remake the ...