Ai Weiwei Criticizes Western Censorship as More Severe Than Mao's China

Ai Weiwei: Western censorship ‘exactly the same’ as Mao Zedong’s China

Artist saw his London exhibition cancelled over a social media post on Israel and Gaza

Ai Weiwei on Liberty, ‘The Last Supper' and Lego Geopolitics

Putting free expression above all else, Ai Weiwei was a power user of X (fka Twitter) for over a decade. Now he says mass media 'pose threats to humanity at large.'

Glass Vase by Ai Weiwei

An edition of Murano glass sculptures for sale by Ai Weiwei. Emblazoned with the iconic Coca-Cola logo, each vase entails a new juncture for the artist’s ongoing reflections on iconography, repetit...

Ai Weiwei: Between Authenticity and Appropriation

The Chinese artist gathers together artefacts from across time to interrogate the fine line between technological advancement and political control by design

Ai Weiwei finds peace in Portugal: ‘I could throw away all my art and not feel much’

As he eases into farmhouse life, the artist is preparing for an epic design show that will feature 200,000 spouts from broken teapots and jugs. He talks about Chinese might, western jealousy – and...

Ai Weiwei ‘would like’ to return to China as long as he is not detained again

The Chinese dissident artist said he would return home if the state did not take away his ‘personal freedom’.

Ai Weiwei raises a middle finger to power, and you can too

The dissident artist’s latest project puts his middle finger in the public domain – here, he tells Dazed about the symbol’s potent political message