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.

So it's fitting that the first U.S. exhibition of Ai's art in more than a decade is also the biggest yet. More than 130 of ...

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 ...

Or politics has been used as a selling point, offering art with the illusion of controversy while merely reiterating the assumptions of the buying public. Is the Chinese political artist Ai Weiwei any ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...