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Ai Weiwei

Get ready for that art fair small talk.

Not-to-Miss Fall Art Events

Get your tickets now for these art world talks and events happening throughout fall.
By Paul Laster
Rendering of one piece in the multi-part Public Art Fund project Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors at Washington Square Park.

Ai Weiwei’s Public Art Fund Commission to Take Over All Five NYC Boroughs

Public Art Fund claimed it would be Weiwei's most ambitious project to date. With details just released, that seems to be true.
By Taylor Dafoe
An abandoned dog is seen within the exclusion zone, about 6km away from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, on April 12, 2011 in Futaba Town , Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Japan's nuclear agency today confirmed that the crisis alert level has been raised to level 7, indicating a level of radiation equal to that of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

360 Film Gives Viewers First Look at Fukushima Exclusion Zone Art Show

The public will be able to go inside the Fukushima exclusion zone for the first time thanks to a 360-degree video installation.
By Alanna Martinez
A rendering for Ai Weiwei's Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, a project with the Public Art Project coming to New York in October 2017.

Ai Weiwei Plans to Put Up Fences Across New York

By Alanna Martinez
Students drawing Iggy Pop during a life drawing class at the New York Academy of Art. The work will go on view for Jeremy Deller's exhibition "Iggy Pop Life Class" at the Brooklyn Museum this fall.

Drawings of Iggy Pop’s Body at Brooklyn Museum, and 5 Things to Do Until Election Day

By Alanna Martinez
Retired electrician Pierre Le Guennec harbored a collection of 271 works by Pablo Picasso, the French newspaper Liberation reported today. Picasso's heir, Claude Picasso, who filled a complaint, dismissed Le Guennec's claim that he could have received the paintings as gifts, telling Liberation that his father would not have given such a quantity of works to anyone, after Le Guennec told he had been given the works as presents, either by Picasso's wife or from the artist himself. AFP PHOTO VALERY HACHE (Photo credit should read )

Picasso’s Handyman Claims Hidden Hoard Were Gifts, Ai Weiwei Lashes Out During Talk

By Alanna Martinez
Prince died after overdosing on the prescripion drug Fentanyl.

Tickets to See Prince’s Mansion Go on Sale, Richard Prince Sued Again

By Alanna Martinez
Designer Anya Hindmarch

Anya Hindmarch Will Kick Off London Fashion Week With a Sotheby’s Show

By Dena Silver
David Bowie by Mick Rock.

David Bowie’s Art Collection Revealed, Ai Weiwei Exhibits Refugee Life Vests

By Alanna Martinez
KASSEL, GERMANY - JUNE 13 Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei poses in front of his sculpture 'Template' during a media preview of Documenta 12 on June 13, 2007 in Kassel, Germany. The Documenta is "one of the most important exhibitions of modern and contemporary art" which now takes place every five years in Kassel and will be open to the public June 16 - September 23.

Ai Weiwei Joins United Talent Agency, David Nahmad Denies His Modigliani Is Nazi Loot

By Alanna Martinez
An Easter Island replica from artist Nathan Sawaya.

Toy De Force: Master LEGO Artist Opens New Show

By Ryan Steadman
Njideka Akunyili Crosby in front of her work.

The Complicated Beauty of Njideka Akunyili Crosby

By Ryan Steadman
Georgia O'Keeffe's Series 1, No. 8, 1919.

Lego Says It Didn’t Mean to Shun Ai Weiwei, Don’t Call That Art a Vagina—and More…

By Ryan Steadman
BERLIN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 14: An art installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei showcases thousands of used life vests by refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos, on February 14, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. The orange vests are wrapped around the pillars of the city's Konzerthaus to highlight the plight of refugees trying to reach Europe.

Ai Weiwei’s Berlin Life Jacket Installation, Prado Pulls Bosch Paintings—and More

By Alanna Martinez
A visitor to Laura Poitras' "Astro Noise" at the Whitney Museum. (New York Observer)

Filmmaker Laura Poitras Brings Classified Documents to Art Museum Walls

By Alanna Martinez
Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei is pictured before a press conference in Athens on January 1, 2016. Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei paid on December 28, 2015 a holiday visit to refugees and migrants flocking to the Greek island of Lesbos, tweeting out photos and videos in appeals for their plight. / AFP / ANGELOS TZORTZINIS (Photo credit should read ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP/Getty Images)

Lesbos Gives Refugee Lifejackets to Ai Weiwei, Roman Fresco Found in London—and More

By Alanna Martinez

Ai Weiwei Receives Backlash for Mimicking Image of Drowned 3-Year-Old Refugee

By Ryan Steadman
August Rodin, Iris, Messenger of the Gods, (1890-91). (Photo: Sotheby's)

Rodin’s Sexiest Artwork Heads to Auction, Versailles Names 2016 Guest Artist—and More

By Alanna Martinez
Gwyneth Paltrow (Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Fashion Roundup: Gwyneth Launches a Skincare Range, Paul Andrew Does Men’s Shoes

By Dena Silver
U.S. President John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) (C) and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (1929 - 1994) pose with their family on Christmas Day at the White House, Washington, D.C., December 25, 1962. (L-R): Caroline Kennedy, unidentified, John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960 - 1999), Anthony Radziwill (1959 - 1999), Prince Stanislaus Radziwill, Lee Radziwill, and their daughter, Ann Christine Radziwill. (Photo by John F. Kennedy Library/Courtesy of Getty Images)

Kennedy Family Housewares Head to Auction, Smithsonian Acquires MLK Bust—and More

By Alanna Martinez
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. (Photo: gardnermuseum.org)

Boston Art Theft Suspect Jail Term Reduced, Tacoma Museum Gifted $14M, and More

By Alanna Martinez
NAMIE, FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE - FEBRUARY 27: Police sergeant Yabuki Koshin and Constable Kanno Tomoyasu walk the grounds of Obori Kindergarten whilst on patrol within the 20km exclusion zone around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, on February 27, 2012 in Namie, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Police patrol the evacuated 20km exclusion zone, which is in force around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and which encompasses six towns and two villages, looking for any signs of burglaries or crime in the now uninhabited zone. The exclusion zone used to be home to approximately 73,000 people but all have been evacuated by the government and are now restricted from returning home due to high levels of radioactive contamination from the explosions at the TEPCO owned Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant following the earthquake and tsunami of March 11 2011. (Photo by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images)

An Art Show in Fukushima, NYPL Builds Under Bryant Park, and More

By Alanna Martinez
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 15: Ai Weiwei stands with his sculpture 'Straight' as he previews works from His landmark art exhibition on September 15, 2015 in London, England. The Royal Academy of Art is showing the work of one of China's leading contemporary artists until mid-December. Ai Weiwei's activism in China saw him detained without charge in 2011 for 81 days. (Photo by Alex B. Huckle/Getty Images)

Ai Weiwei’s Thoughts on Art and Sex, Long-Lost Peggy Guggenheim Tapes Found, and More

By Alanna Martinez

7+ Reasons We’re Excited About the New SFMOMA

By Alexandra Peers
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