Ai Weiwei, internationally known artist and activist, is at the Hirshhorn Museum for his new exhibit, Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) ...

SIMON: Ai Weiwei is the son of Ai Qing, a well-known poet who fell out of favor with the Chinese Communist Party in the 1950s. That's why his family was up there in northwestern China - in a labor ...

Ai Weiwei is among the artists featured in this year’s Sculpture in the City 2025 public art exhibition, which was officially unveiled yesterday. Nestled in the oasis of St Botolph without Bishopsgate ...

"Life Cycle," Ai Weiwei's new work on display now at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles, was shipped out of China just days before Chinese authorities razed Ai's studio without warning.

In 2015, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei clashed with the Danish toymaking firm Lego after the company refused to fulfill a bulk order of plastic bricks for an installation piece he was planning.

Ai Weiwei -- a bellwether Ai Weiwei's interplay with authorities can be seen as a bellwether of how much China has changed, and how far it has to go, in terms of freedom of expression.

Ai Wei Wei takes on L.A. w/ 3 exhibitions: solo show at the Marciano Art Foundation, inaugural exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch’s new gallery + sculptures at his agency's UTA gallery. His themes of ...

Holly Williams and Ai Weiwei discuss an installation he was working on to call attention to refugees. CBS News But Ai isn't convincing everyone in the art world.

Ai Weiwei said, "thank you," and he complimented me on my Mandarin. His new book is called "1,000 Years Of Joys And Sorrows." (SOUNDBITE OF NATHAN KAWANISHI'S "LEISURELY TRAIN RIDE") ...

Ai Weiwei outside his studio in Caochangdi, Beijing, 2009. The title of Ai Weiwei’s new memoir is 1,000 Years of Joys and Sorrows; it’s also an apt description of his life thus far.

Center: A close up of Ai Weiwei's Life Cycle (2018), a bamboo-and-silk sculpture depicting refugees in a lifeboat surrounded by deities, at the Marciano Art Foundation.