As the Beijing Winter Olympics gets underway, artist Ai Weiwei is once again criticizing China’s ruling Communist Party – and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which he said is ...

Chinese authorities are razing one of the Beijing studios of dissident artist Ai Weiwei. He said that demolition crews showed up without advance warning, and have begun the process of tearing down ...

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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said that his Beijing studio was demolished without warning Saturday. The Berlin-based artist, who left China three years ago, posted videos of the brick and concrete ...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s Beijing studio was razed to the ground by authorities on Friday afternoon. The 61-year-old artist revealed the news on Instagram, writing, “Today, they started to ...

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And she and her husband were surrounded by other pioneering artists, among them the edgy and famous dissident, Ai Weiwei. Chen had been priced out of Beijing’s 798 Art Zone, a gallery and ...

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A couple of days after arriving home in Beijing, I met up with Cao Fei for a follow-up interview at a hotel café near the 798 Art District. By chance, Ai Weiwei was sitting at the next table.