AP | Posted 01.10.2012
WASHINGTON -- Sculptures by an outspoken Chinese artist are going on display at Smithsonian museums in Washington. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (EYE' WAY...
Alison Klayman | Posted 01.22.2012
I posted Ai Weiwei's images on Facebook. I was sent a warning, so I censored the photos using Facebook logos. Tuesday morning my account was disabled without notice or further details.
Jeff Jarvis | Posted 01.22.2012
New rule: Censorship can only get more absurd the more you practice it.
The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 11.21.2011
Nudity is not pornography -- that's the message supporters of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei have taken to heart following news that police have started an ...
Posted 01.02.2012
The rebellious Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been grabbing headlines over his ongoing dispute with the Chinese government, but his latest flood of atte...
nytimes.com | ROBERT MACKEY | Posted 10.29.2011
In an angry, despairing essay for Newsweek, Ai Weiwei, a prominent Chinese artist and dissident who was released from detention two months ago, descri...
Posted 10.27.2011
In this slideshow below, we look at seven art super-couples, historical and current, in all of their glory. We've got Pollock and Krasner, the Dalis, ...
latimes.com | David Ng | Posted 10.19.2011
There are artists who prefer to stay out of the public spotlight and devote themselves solely to their work. And then there is Ai Weiwei. An Intern...
HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Becker | Posted 10.16.2011
WASHINGTON -- Human rights groups have wasted little time calling on Vice President Joe Biden to focus on human rights abuses as he meets with high-le...
Posted 09.24.2011
Before his arrest and subsequent release by the Chinese government, Ai Weiwei was an active Twitter user, frequently updating and interacting with his...
The Huffington Post | Analise Roland | Posted 09.17.2011
Since we've made it halfway through 2011, we thought we'd take a look back at the art moments that have defined this year so far. From the defacing of...
Posted 09.14.2011
Jane Austen Manuscript Sold For $1.6 Million One of Jane Austen’s original, unfinished manuscripts was sold at Sotheby’s in London this past Th...
The Washington Post | Keith B. Richburg | Posted 09.13.2011
SHANGHAI – Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist who was released last month after 81 days in a Beijing jail on tax evasion charges, spent his days of con...
Posted 08.31.2011
It's been a very musical week here on HuffPost Arts. James Franco's musical duo Kalup & Franco has a new single, Chuck Berry was the center of controv...
Posted 08.29.2011
NEW YORK (AP) — An exhibition of more than 200 photographs by Ai Weiwei chronicles New York City in the 1980s and early '90s when the recently detai...
Artlog | Posted 08.14.2011
Ugo Rondinone, We Run through a Desert on Burning Feet, All of Us Are Glowing Our Faces Look Twisted, 2008-11. Installation at St. Alban Churchyard, ...
Posted 08.22.2011
After being imprisoned for three months in a Chinese prison, artist-activist Ai Weiwei has been released on bail. Originally detained while try...
AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 08.22.2011
BEIJING — Artist Ai Weiwei, the most high-profile target of a sweeping crackdown on activists in China, has returned home after nearly three mon...
Posted 06.28.2011
Ai Weiwei won't be attending his new outdoor exhibit opening in New York this Monday. [5/2 UPDATE: The exhibit's opening has been delayed due to n...
The Huffington Post | Nicole Larson | Posted 06.19.2011
Like Dancing with the Stars for the art world, it had popular appeal, artistic merit, drama, and plenty of intrigue -- it was LACMA's Collectors Commi...
nydailynews.com | Joaquim Andrade | Posted 06.18.2011
New Yorkers joined a global protest Sunday demanding the Chinese government free an artist best known for designing the National Beijing Stadium for t...
TIME | Posted 06.12.2011
On Sunday, artist Ai Weiwei -- best known for helping design the "Bird's Nest" Olympic stadium in Beijing -- was detained by Chinese authorities as pa...
Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 06.11.2011
Maureen Dowd's virulent critique of Bob Dylan makes one wonder, where has she been in all of this? China's "harshest crackdown on artists, lawyers, writers and dissidents in a decade" didn't just start this weekend.
AP | By ISOLDA MORILLO | Posted 06.04.2011
BEIJING -- One of China's most famous contemporary artists remained missing Monday, more than a day after he was blocked from leaving the country and ...
Paul Klein | Posted 04.13.2012