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'If an artwork fails to make people feel its dissent, it is essentially lifeless': Chinese artist and activist on the importance of confrontation

February 08, 2026 4:06 pm

In Delhi, for his first solo show in India, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei speaks on his recent visit to Ukraine and how the refugee crises run in his blood

My home is on my two legs…I have no sense of a homeland: Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei

February 07, 2026 11:03 am

The internationally renowned artist speaks on making connections between India and himself and his iterations of modern Indian masters SH Raza and VS Gaitonde in Lego

Ai Weiwei's first-ever India exhibition to open in Delhi

January 11, 2026 11:26 am

The exhibition will feature key works from across the Chinese artist's practice, including his signature toy-brick compositions

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei visited Ukraine weeks before unveiling his new art installation in Kyiv.

Ai Weiwei in Ukraine

August 20, 2025 6:33 pm

The Chinese dissent artist met soldiers and cultural figures. Next month he will be exhibiting in Kyiv

Artist Ai Weiwei warns against hubris in 'troublesome' times

September 07, 2022 5:16 pm

He sees the struggle in China as one for legitimacy of authorities' control, while the challenge in the West is the continual need to defend democracy and with it freedom of speech

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Hong Kong opens new modern art museum under national security cloud

November 11, 2021 6:57 pm

The multi-billion dollar M+, featuring contemporary artwork from leading Chinese, Asian and Western artists is Hong Kong's bid to match museums like the Tate Modern in London, the MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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Ai Weiwei: ‘This is a battle about the future’

June 14, 2020 7:10 pm

In an exclusive interview, the Chinese contemporary artist and dissident talks about how the pandemic has strengthened state powers, why the West struggles to understand China and how he lost his voice in solitary confinement

China returns passport to Ai Weiwei, who plans London trip

July 23, 2015 1:11 pm

Ai posted an Instagram photo Wednesday of himself holding a Chinese passport with the caption, "Today, I got my passport." Ai's supporters shared the artist's post and cheered the news.