Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has formed a wall from 2,000 life jackets that were used by Syrian refugees while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea as part of an installation in Quebec City.

Ai’s rhythm is unchanging but to witness the lives behind the numbers is potent. After the military coup in Myanmar in February, the Rohingya remain 20km across the border — and never further ...

Ai Weiwei had for long periods lived among refugees on the Greek islands, in the Turkish-Syrian and the US-Mexican border areas, where he collected material and stories, filmed and photographed. The ...

LONDON, Aug 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei is swapping his adopted home of Berlin for Britain, saying German society had become intolerant of refugees and ...

Ai Weiwei may be the most well-known Chinese artist ... documents the global refugee crisis across more than 20 countries, using aerial shots to create a sense in the audience of the enormity ...

The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has won his legal battle with ... Soleil Levant—a work featuring thousands of discarded refugee life jackets—for a campaign to promote its VW Polo ...

Ai Weiwei is taking Volkswagen to court in Denmark ... The work was created for World Refugee Day and was presented on the facade of the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen.

They’re refugees. “We all could have difficulty ... “Towards those people who never had a chance to speak out.” “Ai Weiwei: Life Cycle” is on at the Marciano Art Foundation until ...

Ai Weiwei spoke about the international refugee crisis and the influences behind the documentary Human Flow in a new interview. Speaking with TIME Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal following a ...

World Refugee Day, June 20 ... which is something that artist Ai Weiwei makes a point to highlight in his work. And never one to miss the opportunity to do good and give back, Weiwei is partnering ...

A prolific filmmaker and sculptor, Ai Weiwei first rose to international prominence in ... and there was a fair amount of audible sobbing in the hall when refugees bore testimony about the amount of ...