Foong is referencing Ai Weiwei's "Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn" in 1995. The performance was photographed and now the images of the artist breaking a 2,000-year-old urn hang on the walls of the ...

The groundbreaking, exiled Chinese artist builds a hopeful new life—and a new studio, in the Portuguese countryside By Jay Cheshes Photographs by Jo Metson Scott Ai Weiwei’s relocation to ...

While in Beijing, Ai’s practice became more political: He started working with centuries-old Chinese artifacts, such as Han Dynasty urns ... and interesting as Ai Weiwei’s?” It’s a valid question, and ...

One of Ai Weiwei’s most famous and shocking artistic projects was the photographic triptych titled Dropping the Han Dynasty Urn. In the early 1990s, he purchased two 2000-year-old vases from a ...

SEATTLE, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) presents Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei (March ... works such as Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995), Study ...

This week, the Seattle Art Museum opened the largest-ever U.S. exhibition featuring the work of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei ... such as Han Dynasty urns, painting them with the Coca ...