Chinese artist and provocateur Ai Weiwei relishes the symbolism of displaying his portraits of political dissidents and activists in Washington at a time when human rights and liberties are erodin ...

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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 ...

Ai Weiwei: I think artist and activist is the same thing. As artist, you always have to be an activist. Holly Williams: You have to be political to be a good artist. Ai Weiwei: I think every art ...

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 ...

In a gallery in Hong Kong’s Chai Wan district last week, during the city’s third annual installment of the international Art Basel fair, the Beijing-based artist Huang Rui introduced a new ...

Ai Weiwei: First, I always like to have a new ... In the West, it seems that political art matches party politics of the left. Is that true in the East—that the more outspoken work is ...

"Ai Weiwei's work thinks big ... challenge power structures and how we view them. As an example of art's power to upend political realities, however, a work like that "borders on farce," said ...