Ai Weiwei

Art dealer Mary Boone’s legal troubles have been well-documented over the past few years. She is currently serving a 30-month sentence for tax fraud at Danbury Federal Correctional Institution in Connecticut, after agreeing to pay more than $3 million in taxes owed. But new allegations of financial impropriety emerged this…

artsUpdated 21st February 2020 The Minneapolis Institute of Art's neoclassical columns, flanked by two stone guardian lions, are one of the first things visitors to the museum will notice. And now, those columns stand out even more, after being covered by th… Read More

Minneapolis Institute of Art's neoclassical facade just got a colorful makeover. Nearly 2,400 blue, orange and red life jackets cover the six Greco-Roman stone columns. Viewed from afar, they look like a smattering of confetti against the white snow. This is artist Ai Weiwei's installation "Safe Passage," using life vests…

This February, Ai Weiwei will screen some of his most controversial films in Berlin. © Image Courtesy of the Babylon TheatreBERLIN: The Babylon Theatre will be screening more than 50 films made over the past two decades by the Chinese dissident and activist, or others, about his work. The films…

Meme campaigning, democratic art, interactive education. –Forgo is a new mix-it-yourself waterless beauty brand that cuts down on carbon emissions and plastic waste. Via Dezeen. –France has introduced a raft of environmental policies under the new French Office of Biodiversity, including a protected nature reserve surrounding Mont Blanc to cute…

Ai Weiwei has created the artwork Safety Jackets Zipped the Other Way from products that can all be bought from Hornbach stores (and probably in fact from other DIY stores around the world). The artwork can be made in multiple different versions, depending on the space you have or the…

Image via HornbachChinese artist Ai Weiwei is endeavoring to nurture a love for art in the mass market, and has teamed up with German home improvement brand Hornbach to work on an affordable DIY piece that anyone can buy from the store. The result isSafety J…

The artist and activist Ai Weiwei often uses unconventional materials in his work, whether thats 14,000 life jackets (which he used to draw attention to the refugee crisis in 2016), a Han Dynasty urn, or the dust collected from his demolished Beijing studio. …

Ai Weiwei in his Berlin studio in front of his artwork ‘Safety Jackets Zipped the Other Way.’ Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident artist and globally famous advocate for social justice, always has a lot of irons in the fire. Recently, Weiwei’s focus has been…

Kevin Parker of Tame Impala is on the new cover of Billboard bearing a suspicious gaze that hides what is, in reality, his attempt at a star turn. His intentions are made more clear inside the magazine, where he says, "I want to be a Max Martin," giving Billb…