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

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s US retrospective showcases his art and activism, challenging authoritarianism and championing free ...

The Seattle Art Museum opened a major retrospective in 2025 for Ai Weiwei, one of the world’s most well-known and celebrated artists.

But he’s also revitalized Chinese art with his constant currents of passion, humor, and surprise. So it isn’t terribly surprising that Ai Weiwei—conceptual artist, videomaker, and activist—should be ...

This week, the Seattle Art Museum opened the largest-ever U.S. exhibition featuring the work of Chinese artist and activist ...

By Zoey Poll For part of the year, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei works in a cavernous 30,000 ... 1,001 volunteers from China to the Documenta art exhibition in Kassel, Germany.

“I’m like a shattered mirror,” the artist Ai Weiwei tells W one morning in a cozy corner of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), where he’s mounting his first U.S. retrospective in over a decade.

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The title of Seattle Art Museum’s Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei has Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot as its inspiration. And the reason for this is found in Asimov’s interconnected ...

Ai Weiwei first deployed Lego bricks as an art medium in 2014 when he used them to create portraits of political prisoners. Now a key element of his practice, Lego will also feature heavily in the ...

You might expect a world-famous artist like Ai Weiwei — who has poked critically at value systems and institutions for decades with his provocative, interrogating art — to be more bombastic.