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Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei walks by his work "Life Cycle", a migrants' boat made of bamboo, during a press preview of his new exhibition "Rapture" in Lisbon, Portugal
Arts, Culture & Media
A new memoir by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei honors his father’s poetry and politics
Ai Weiwei looks at the camera as he stands in front of a microphone
Hong Kong politics
Ai Weiwei: Hong Kong security law ‘the last nail of the coffin’
A helmeted head is blurry in the foreground, behind it, a line of protesters on a balcony
Top of The World
Hong Kong national security law to take effect; Iran sentences journalist to death; Koalas could be extinct by 2050 in New South Wales
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei stands near a microphone in a radio studio.
Arts, Culture & Media
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei asks: Does America still have ‘the big heart?’
The Battle of Dixie & Robbie Robertson
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Arts, Culture & Media
When Will Lego Art Grow Up?
Artist Ai Weiwei stands in an exact replica of the cell where he was detained by the Chinese government for roughly three months in 2011.
Arts
Will Hollywood self-censor to get around Chinese restrictions? It’s already happening
Ai Weiwei at his studio in Beijing, June 2014
Arts
A Chinese artist transforms Alcatraz into a Lego-carpeted political statement
Ai Weiwei out of prison, stuck in Beijing
Conflict & Justice
Chinese Authorities Ban Ai Weiwei’s ‘Gangnam Style’ Video
Global Politics
Shanghai Squatters Want Their Homes Back
Conflict & Justice
Ai Weiwei’s ‘WeiweiCam’ Goes Dark
Conflict & Justice
Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Named Most Powerful in the World
Conflict & Justice
Reasons for WeiWei’s Release
Global Politics
Ai Weiwei ‘Cannot Leave Beijing Without Permission’
Famed Chinese Artist and Dissident, Ai Weiwei, Released from Prison
Conflict & Justice
Ai Weiwei Controversy in Milwaukee
The World in Words
Linguistic surrealism from China to Belgium
Arts, Culture & Media
Blogs of missing Chinese dissident published
Conflict & Justice
The Arrest of Ai Weiwei