(CNN) — In 2015, China handed back something of great value to Ai Weiwei: his Chinese passport. The move allowed the dissident artist to travel for the first time since authorities revoked his ...
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has spoken about the experience of quietly returning to his homeland for the first time in about a decade, describing it as being like a “phone call that had been ...
An artwork Ai Weiwei made about his surveillance by Chinese authorities (image via Wikimedia) The Chinese government might be relaxing its censorious attitude toward Ai Weiwei. According to The Art ...
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has hit out at the West for hypocrisy and said it is not in a position to accuse China of human rights abuses due to its own dubious record. Ai said he had ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) - A museum in Taiwan will host dissident artist Ai Weiwei's first major exhibition in the overseas Chinese world in a move that could upset Beijing. Ai, famed for his work on the ...
The Chinese artist and activist, who has just opened the retrospective ‘Aftershock’ at the MAXXI museum in L’Aquila, argues that restrictions on expression are not only a problem of autocracies but al ...