Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese artist and free-speech advocate Ai Weiwei signs his book ahead of an exhibition titled "Ai Weiwei: By the way, it's always ...

This is exactly what China’s provocative contemporary artist Ai Wei Wei strives to do through his work: use art to speak about many social and cultural concerns. His survey exhibition, According to ...

Last week we reported that Ai Wei Wei, the dissident artist whose detention in China sparked international outcry, had been released after almost three months in jail. Authorities said he’d been ...

Art is often intentionally employed as a means of spreading political messages. Goya’s “The Third of May and Picaso’s Guerinca both sought to shed light on the brutality occurring around them and ...