The exhibition "Ai Weiwei: Life Cycle" at the Marciano features Ai's new work — a bamboo sculpture of a refugee boat carrying men, women and children. But it almost didn't make it here.

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He tackled the global refugee crisis with his 2019 piece Life ... cast in iron from a mold of a tree in Brazil's rainforest Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio Ai transforms ready-made objects from ...

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Maxim Derevianko's "Ai Weiwei's Turandot" has been picked up ... weaving in themes of war, refugee crises and the pandemic. "When I began working on ‘Turandot,' I focused on how to reinterpret ...

In the documentary Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, the multi-disciplinary artist known for his architecture, installations and sculptures, takes his first steps into opera, an artistic medium he’s never ...

The first Ai Weiwei retrospective in the U.S. in over a decade is now on display at the Seattle Art Museum. The show features 130 works from the 1980s to 2020s, and will run from March 12 to ...