ai weiwei on why a dying tree inspired his first drawing in more than 50 years

ai weiwei on why a dying tree inspired his first drawing in more than 50 years

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ai weiwei

ai weiwei is a chinese contemporary artist, working in sculpture, installation, architecture, curation, photography, film, and social, political and cultural crafts.

ai weiwei confronts memory, catastrophe, and resilience at MAXXI l'aquila exhibition

spanning five decades of work, the exhibition anchors itself in 'straight', the artist’s reassembled steel rebar installation from the 2008 sichuan earthquake.

ai weiwei’s installation in ukraine unveils proportioned spheres & dyed camouflage uniforms

matthew burgos

ai weiwei to debut installation in ukraine inspired by leonardo da vinci’s divina proportione

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‘of course it’s political’: ai weiwei on working spaces in response to power, memory, and loss

ai weiwei to wrap roosevelt island’s modernist landscape in camouflage installation

ai weiwei recreates historic art with LEGO bricks as part of galleria continua exhibition

ai weiwei poses 81 questions to artificial intelligence in 'ai vs AI' london exhibition

myrto katsikopoulou

ai weiwei reinterprets his animals/zodiac head sculptures into gold lunar year charms

myrto katsikopoulou

ai weiwei recreates claude monet’s water lilies using 650,000 LEGO bricks

matthew burgos

'states of violence' exhibition exposes top government cables leaked by julian assange

christina petridou

'ai weiwei: making sense' marks the artist's first-ever design-centered exhibition

christina petridou

ai weiwei: 'free expression is the most important of human rights' – interview ahead of E.A.T.

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ai weiwei designs tibetan tiger rug to advocate the animal’s conservation

matthew burgos

SANAA and ai weiwei among recipients of 2022 praemium imperiale art award

large-scale gemstone artworks made by human & animal voices debut in london show

matthew burgos

ai weiwei installs 2000 life jackets of syrian refugees at québec royal battery

2000 life jackets of syrian refugees collected on the greek island of lesbos serve as remnants of the dangerous migration crisis.

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olafur eliasson uses 832 colored glass tiles for vertical panorama pavilion at donum estate

matthew burgos

10-rule manifesto by ai weiwei for empowerment and freedom of mind

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ai weiwei brings contemporary issues to debut opera 'turandot' in rome

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ai weiwei exhibits colossal glass sculpture of bones and viscera at roman national museum

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ai weiwei presents the liberty of doubt at kettle's yards in cambridge

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watch: ai weiwei runs on a treadmill julian assange gave him in defence of press freedom

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'we cannot depend on one meeting': ai weiwei and other artists comment on COP26

lynne myers

ai weiwei-designed house to host indigenous artists and activists in upstate new york

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