The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, spans five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture

The dissident artist has created the one of the world's largest suspended Murano glass artworks

The Chinese activist, detained in 2011, has visited prisons across the country

At the Somerset music event, the Chinese dissident artist is screening a film about his family's history as prisoners of conscience

Work is a “warning and reminder” that world will see more humanitarian crises

Artists from Magdalene Odundo to Ai Weiwei are demonstrating that the art form goes way beyond the "applied"

The seven pieces, the first Tek has donated since forming a partnership with the Los Angeles institution in 2018, are featured in a current exhibition

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Marcel Duchamp to ancient Chinese ceramics—and why Romanticism is not for him

Chinese artist and activist says society does not have the right to make the Covid-19 vaccine compulsory

Our roundup of the latest art publications

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