But walking into the Vito Schnabel Gallery, I was enthralled by the artist's playful repurposing of — of all things — Lego ...

"Ai Weiwei's work thinks big: big politics, big history, big issues, big materials," said Charles Mudede in The Stranger. So it's fitting that the first U.S. exhibition of Ai's art in more than a ...

Ai Weiwei, known for his witty and conceptual nose-thumbing ... the Palazzo Chupi on West 11th Street — are dedicated to Mr. Weiwei’s most recent works, iconic art masterpieces, and political imagery ...

He questions how an unfinished piece of art—Puccini died while writing ... As Puccini’s Turandot explored love, power, and redemption, Ai Weiwei’s work examined autocratic governments ...

By Zoey Poll For part of the year, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei works in a ... Alongside these works are re-creations of pieces from the Western art historical canon made out of Legos ...

“It’s kind of strange to look at,” he says of the works collected at SAM. “I only like them before I make it. Once I make it, it’s past, and I have a lot of questions and problems ahead of me.” “Ai, ...

A vandal smashed up a sculpture by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei during the private opening ... to be known for targeting important works of art in the past. It is still unclear how the ...