You might expect a world-famous artist like Ai Weiwei — who has poked critically ... its scales made of small backpacks in memory of thousands of children who were killed in the devastating ...

Snake Ceiling (2019), is a particularly poignant piece, made up of 857 children’s backpacks as ... problems ahead of me.” “Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei” runs through ...

The backpacks turn into a sentence in Chinese ... Over the past several decades, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has become one of the most important and recognizable names in contemporary art, activism ...

Last year, the editors of ArtReview magazine named the Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei the most powerful artist in the world. It was an unusual choice. Ai’s varied, scattershot work doesn’t fetch ...

The first Ai Weiwei retrospective in the U.S. in over a decade is now on display at the Seattle Art Museum. The show features ...

Snake Ceiling (2019), is a particularly poignant piece, made up of 857 children’s backpacks as a remembrance ... lot of questions and problems ahead of me.” “Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai ...