Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and dissident who believes it his job to be "incorrect," was hard at work on the night of Jan 23 during an appearance at The Town Hall in Manhattan.

A crucified Ronald McDonald clown, prayer mats adorned with stilettos and sketches by former Guantanamo prisoners take pride of place at a new museum in Spain devoted to previously censored art.

The private Museum of Forbidden Art, which opened to the public in Barcelona last week, features 42 works from around the world that have been denounced, attacked or removed from exhibition.

China feels it has the "right to redefine the global world order," Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei told AFP on April 5ahead of the opening in London of his first design-focused exhibition.

Dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Jan. 30 said the Chinese state's razing of his studios still fails to make "any sense" to him, as he launched his first design-focused exhibition, due to open in London in April.

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei warns against hubris in what he calls "such a troublesome time" with his first glass sculpture, made on the Venetian island of Murano, with the foreboding subtitle: "Memento Mori," Latin for "Remember You Must Die."

A Banksy picture which was half sliced by a shredder concealed in its frame when it was sold at auction fetched $25.4 million when it went back under the hammer in the same room in London on Oct. 14.

Onlookers gasped when the then-titled "Girl with Balloon" was sucked into a shredder as the hammer fell following a bid of $1.4 million at an October 2018 auction at Sotheby's in London.

Journalist and writer Hatice Utkan Özden's first book "Çağdaş Sanat ve Yaratıcılık" (Contemporary Art and Creativity), published by Morena, opens the door to the artists unknown and the hidden world of creativity.

Ljubljana – The 31st Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe) has attracted numerous film buffs although it was held online this year due to anti-corona restrictions, the organisers said. A quarter of tickets were sold compared to previous years, but the 2020 programme was also heavily reduced, the festival’s director Simon Popek told the STA.

A Danish court July 17 ordered a Volkswagen dealer to pay Chinese artist Ai Weiwei more than 230,000 euros in damages for using one of the artist's works in an ad without authorization.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei unveiled a new installation in Mexico that tells the story of 43 students likely massacred five years ago in a case that exposed government stonewalling and complicity in abuses, a frequent theme for the dissident artist.