Art X Freedom opens with Camouflage, a major site-specific installation by Ai Weiwei at Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt ...

(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 the China of before. “There were almost ...

In truth, Ai Weiwei, at 67, is all those things as evidenced ... 7, highlights work from his formative years in his native Beijing through 12 years in New York, where he attended the Parsons ...

The groundbreaking, exiled Chinese artist builds a hopeful new life—and a new studio, in the Portuguese countryside By Jay Cheshes Photographs by Jo Metson Scott Ai Weiwei’s relocation to ...

Ai Weiwei is a Beijing artist and activist. The term “the God Ai” refers to an incident in Chengdu. Ai Weiwei and others were at a hotel when the police burst in. They accused Ai Weiwei of ...

Josh Chin is a senior global correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, based in Asia. He specializes in investigations and other deeply reported stories, with a focus on geopolitics, technology and ...

The inaugural Art X Freedom commission will be a monumental new public art installation by artist and activist Ai Weiwei.