Ai Weiwei’s Turandot ... It is set in China, but also speaks to refugees – a narrative about entering a new world order and about multiple possibilities. These were tangible, real challenges.

From Doris Salcedo’s ‘Shibboleth’ to Kara Walker’s anti-imperial fountain, the commissions have frequently challenged viewers ...

Director and co-scriptwriter Maxim Derevianko, who comes to the film with a family history in opera and performance, concentrates on the shifting of Ai Weiwei’s visual and narrative motifs from a ...

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Artist and activist Ai Weiwei – known for his provocative exploration of human rights, as seen in an ongoing retrospective in Seattle, as well as his ability to capture the imagination with ...

This fall, acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei will plant a major outdoor installation at New York’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, kicking off the park’s Art X Freedom ...

By Zachary Small The Four Freedoms Park Conservancy announced on Thursday that it has commissioned the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for a monumental installation on Roosevelt Island that will kick off ...

In 2015, at the height of the refugee crisis in Europe ... Garcia and his team launched the Synthetic Memories project to use AI to generate photographic representations of memories that were ...

May 18 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include: -- Russian Czar Nicholas II in 1868 -- Philosopher/mathematician Bertrand Russell ...

(Iwan Baan) Born in Beijing and now living in Portugal, Weiwei is a contemporary artist and activist. Weiwei left China in 2015 after facing years of government pressure for criticizing its human ...

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 ...