Ai Weiwei

Artist and architect Raymond Fung on Thursday hailed the upcoming opening of the M+ Museum as an important milestone for arts development in Hong Kong, in the midst of a pandemic which has badly crippled the tourist sector. The museum will finally open on November 12 after years of delay.…

The M+ Museum will finally open on November 12 after years of delay, the West Kowloon Cultural District announced on Wednesday. Hong Kong residents can visit the contemporary visual culture museum for free for its first year of operation. In a statement, the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) said…

Published: 3:00am, 4 Jun, 2021 Updated: 8:06pm, 4 Jun, 2021 Read More

May 18 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include: -- Persian poet Omar Khayyam in 1048 -- Russian Czar Nicholas II in 1868 -- English philosopher/mathematician Bertrand Russell in 1872 -- Film director Frank Capra in 1897 -- Blues singer Big Joe…

(AP) Decisions in Hong Kong not to display a politically sensitive photograph in a museum exhibition and not broadcast the annual Academy Awards for the first time in decades have prompted concerns that Beijing’s crackdown on dissent in the city is extending to arts and entertainment.Hong Kong authorities have taken…

Dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Thursday said that challenging the authorities is one of the main purposes of art, as he rejected a pro-Beijing lawmaker's claim that his work subverts the state. Eunice Yung, from the New People's Party, had singled out Ai on Wednesday, as she raised concerns that…

Last week masked men set fire to a Banksy screenprint called Morons (White) at a secret location in Brooklyn, livestreaming the destruction via the Twitter account @BurntBanksy. The men worked for a company called Injective Protocol, which bought the print for $95,000 in order to destroy it and replace it…

(AP) Two new films about Wuhan were released Friday, the eve of the anniversary of the start of a 76-day lockdown in the central Chinese city where the coronavirus was first detected. How they were released and who their audiences are stand in stark contrast. The first, a state-backed film praising…

(AP) “Papa!” screams a hospital worker, covered from head to toe in a Hazmat suit and PPE, in the opening moments of the documentary “76 Days.”This is in the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan, back in January and February when the city of 11 million went into a…

The Trump administration has floated the idea of sanctioning Chinese officials and members of the Communist party of China. Before we ask whether this is a good idea, let’s ask how Sino-US relations got to this stage.The US cold war with the Soviet Union was over ideology, but today’s standoff…