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

Ai Weiwei often employs unusual and (seemingly) found objects to construct his larger-than-life artworks. From sunflower seeds to illuminating lights, the artist assembles universal commodities in ...

16.5 x 16.5 x 16.5 in. (41.9 x 41.9 x 41.9 cm.) London, Tate, The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds, exh. cat., 2010-2011, p. 63, no. 47 (another unique ...

Is Sunflower Seeds, for example ... (Ai Qing was exonerated in 1978 and lived in Beijing until his death in 1996.) To Ai Weiwei, there was also another, less personal kind of emptiness about ...

By Zoey Poll For part of the year, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei works in a cavernous ... For a project like “Sunflower Seeds,” we had to hire 1,600 women to work together.

Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio After learning his father ... “They asked, ‘What are you going to put in there?’ I told them, ‘Sunflower seeds,’” Ai says, with a laugh.

The first Ai Weiwei retrospective in the U.S. in over a decade is now on display at the Seattle Art Museum. The show features ...

There's no shortage of amazing art exhibits to see this year, including major retrospectives and eye-opening group shows. Whether you want to be moved, to laugh, to question, or to cry, there's a ...

Maxim Derevianko’s “Ai Weiwei’s Turandot” has been picked up by Berlin-based doc specialist Rise and Shine World Sales, ahead of its international premiere on March 21 in the Highlights ...

The sunflower seed is a complex symbol of Chinese culture. During Ai Weiwei’s childhood, sunflower seeds were often the only things saving families from starvation during famines. At the same ...

This spring, the Seattle Art Museum hosts a moveable feast of Ai Weiwei, presenting for the first time the work of one artist across all three locations. It has hosted a huge spider and a pickled ...