The Chinese artist will unveil a new work this week at the Southbank Centre for the English PEN 100 festival championing freedom of expression

Sculptures arrived from China ahead of a show of works of Chinese contemporary art

The Chinese dissident artist is stopping the regular advertisements in the famous square for an hour

Almost half of the artists participating in the Bangkok Art Biennale opening this week have expressed "support for the struggle for democracy"

The digital art platform CIRCA will commission a new artist every month to create a work that reflects on the year 2020

Dissident artist says that European museums in China are betraying their own values

Film aims to show “surveillance, ideological brainwashing, and brute determination used to control every aspect of society” by China’s leaders

As the coronavirus crisis stretches on, we look at how artists have captured confinement in recent history and what is being done now

From printed masks made by Ai Weiwei to art historical masterpieces recreated at home

The Chinese dissident artist and director of Human Flow is also currently filming a new documentary about the coronavirus pandemic

In a two-day digital conference, the artist shares his thoughts on the Communist party’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the role of artists in society

Ai Weiwei was a hit in Brazil, records were broken in London and Paris—but is this the final year of museum visitor growth?

Jean-Michel Basquiat brought in big crowds in Paris—but who beat him to claim the top spot?

The Chinese artist and activist reflects on how authoritarian political systems have been able to tackle the crisis more effectively

Chinese artist's video is part of Palazzo Strozzi's new digital project for users during lockdown

An emergency decree means that all museums in the country are on lock down until 3 April

The works cannot be shown in China where the dissident artist says his identity has been erased

Established by the founders of the Institute for Artists Estates, Loretta Würtenberger and Daniel Tümpel, the display will open in May at Schlossgut Schwante

As Notre Dame burned, protestors called the shots and a gold toilet vanished, it was certainly a year to remember

Dissident artist is exploring the disappearance of the Brazilian rainforest alongside China’s growing influence in South America

Ellen Celli, Andrea Krantz, and Ruthard Murphy also join the nonprofit to help bring more free arts programming to New York City

In Hong Kong, university campuses have become literal battlegrounds in the protracted clash between police and protesters over the region’s future

In this bumper edition we interview three of the world's leading artists, all of whom have shows timed to coincide with Frieze in London, plus all the latest news from the fair

Activist was demonstrating in support of workers' rights in the face of cost-cutting at the museum

From an artist occupation in an abandoned building to Ai Weiwei's return to his roots

Chinese artist and activist’s team has been documenting the intensifying anti-government protests over the weekend

The Chinese artist will also design the sets and costumes for the production at the Teatro dell'Opera next year

Speaking to the BBC, Chinese dissident artist says West is unlikely to interfere and he has 'no trust in Britain at all'

Raed Yassin says there are "striking similarities" between his ceramic series on the Lebanese civil war and Ai's pieces on the Syrian war and refugee crisis

The installation investigating their disappearance is part of the artist’s show at MUAC

Survey at Gardiner Museum ranges from artist’s broken Han Dynasty urn to zodiac signs

“It was infuriating to find our involvement had been erased,” Ai says

The space is latest artistic casualty in the city's gentrification campaign

Activist launches Jeffrey Deitch’s new Hollywood gallery and will show works with talent agency UTA

On the anniversary, the artist reflects on the disaster and China's response

Chinese artists unveils new commissions alongside 50 works at the Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée

The artist talks about his refugee-orientated show in Hong Kong—and his plans for South America

Giant refugee lifeboat is one of two works by Chinese dissident artist in the Biennale of Sydney

The dissident Chinese artist on why he's tackling the global refugee crisis in his first exhibition in the Gulf

The $50m San Francisco Bay redevelopment plan includes several large-scale public sculptures

Proceeds from Berlin sale, which also includes works by Rosemarie Trockel and Tomás Saraceno, will benefit Kayany Foundation

Chinese artist was en route to premiere of his documentary Human Flow when staff wrongly claimed his visa was invalid

Chinese artist’s biggest exhibition to date uses porcelain as a way of bridging Turkey’s historic connections with the East