https://www.aiweiwei.com/coronation daily 0.75 2020-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1597425362439-7F1FQF9YAKR0C6FSYKI7/1-Central+Station.jpg Coronation Wuhan Central Station during the lockdown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1597425632612-64C4VEZOXR93SOBZ9NDB/15-mengliang-the+garage+guy.jpg Coronation Meng Liang, an emergency construction worker, is prevented from returning to his hometown due to the lockdown in Wuhan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1608136876654-E7G422F5NW3NRROQ0BYK/coronation_1080x1600.jpg Coronation - “Coronation” is now available for rent or buy in the US on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play, as well as globally on Vimeo On Demand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1597425552651-6PIJUHWL1DTB6YARRPJZ/8-examine.jpg Coronation A doctor examines a Covid-19 patient https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1597425406137-WED6HM66XC8615HIGIDF/3-ambulance+disinfection.jpg Coronation A healthcare worker is disinfected https://www.aiweiwei.com/home daily 1.0 2020-08-15 https://www.aiweiwei.com/about daily 0.75 2020-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1597414944882-YGNIQVF5AYHIE6L0JU2U/2012+%28photo+credit+Ai+Weiwei+Studio%29.jpg About https://www.aiweiwei.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-08-19 https://www.aiweiwei.com/human-flow daily 0.75 2020-08-14 https://www.aiweiwei.com/cockroach daily 0.75 2021-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1608138050889-YW4RGR998RO5576IVGNM/Cockroach-3.jpg Cockroach “Five Demands, Not One Less” was a common refrain during the Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1608138140826-XT1XSEPO5LIPWMH7LU94/Cockroach-8.jpg Cockroach Riot police fire tear gas at student demonstrators at the Chinese University of Hong Kong cam- pus on November 12, 2019. The conflict at CUHK lasted five days https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1608138087275-4LGE3RTEU17AWRBMAON9/Cockroach-6.jpg Cockroach Demonstrators are detained by riot police https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1608137789100-FG27PHNWANVJ4RTN836F/cockroach_1080x1600.jpg Cockroach - “Cockroach” is now available to rent or buy globally on Vimeo On Demand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1608137990469-VC0665YX4W4CVUO6E3OE/Cockroach-1.jpg Cockroach A mass protest against a controversial extradition bill in Wanchai on June 16, 2019 https://www.aiweiwei.com/rohingya daily 0.75 2021-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1623787904542-4R4N5TPX36AWHOEYHS8K/Rohingya_still8.jpg Rohingya Rohingya men praying at a mosque inside the camp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1623787926227-ITY1O9DS9ICEMN664IL9/Rohingya_still13.jpg Rohingya A Rohingya man resting inside his shelter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1623787692302-VJ37RYH0T557XGO7BARJ/1_rohingya_1080x1600.jpg Rohingya - “Rohingya” is now available to rent or buy globally on Vimeo On Demand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1623787808211-28WC0CZFNC3YB02IRJ3N/Rohingya_still1.jpg Rohingya Cox’s Bazar refugee camp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1623787879644-5KN5CXYEA5800WB8BZT1/Rohingya_still3.jpg Rohingya https://www.aiweiwei.com/1000years daily 0.75 2021-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1635447349900-OP3HQSGNN7Z11TX7H5AO/1000+YEARS+OF+JOYS+AND+SORROWS+%28hi-res%29.jpg 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows - “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows” is out now. Find out more on aiweiweibook.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1635446495167-TXMTQL08VV9HG215U4WI/1a.png 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows Ai Weiwei with his father, celebrated Chinese poet Ai Qing, at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, November 1959. I was born in 1957, eight years after the founding of the “New China.” My father was forty-seven. When I was growing up, my father rarely talked about the past, because everything was shrouded in the thick fog of the dominant political narrative, and any inquiry into fact ran the risk of provoking a backlash too awful to contemplate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1635447808014-T3EU41B0MOV50PRFLKGT/6a.png 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows A photo of Ai Weiwei’s son, Ai Lao, walking on Sunflower Seeds at the Tate Modern, London, U.K., 2010. I wanted to try something involving a material object that had close associations with culture and history, memory and identity, a subject that would be instantly recognizable but at the same time open to a variety of interpretations… In Mao’s China, sunflowers also had a special, symbolic status. In countless pictures, with captions reading “Beloved Chairman Mao, we will always be faithful to you!” or “Chairman Mao Is the Reddest, Reddest Red Sun in Our Hearts,” Mao, smiling smugly, dominated the center of the picture, a huge red sun rising like a halo behind his head, while below a sea of sunflowers turned their enraptured faces toward him, basking in the sunshine of his infallible thought. By March 2010, when I submitted my proposal to the Tate Modern, the concept was clear in my mind: to fill the immense space in the Turbine Hall not with a large, imposing structure but with its opposite. Across the huge floor I would lay a bed of tiny, humble objects: sunflower seeds, one hundred million of them. All yet to be made. https://www.aiweiwei.com/zodiac daily 0.75 2024-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/c0d77465-091e-46b3-9e8e-bc228c922fad/ZODIAC+flat+cover.jpg ZODIAC: A Graphic Memoir - “ZODIAC” is out on 30 January, 2024. Find out more on https://sites.prh.com/zodiac-book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/82bc7482-35c6-4cb3-b6c3-b6bcd61f93c1/Zodiac.png ZODIAC: A Graphic Memoir Deluxe Edition with Signed Art Print This deluxe hardcover edition comes in a slipcase and includes an exclusive, limited-edition art print, signed by Ai Weiwei and stamped in gold foil. https://www.aiweiwei.com/1000years-2 daily 0.75 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1635447808014-T3EU41B0MOV50PRFLKGT/6a.png 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows (Copy) A photo of Ai Weiwei’s son, Ai Lao, walking on Sunflower Seeds at the Tate Modern, London, U.K., 2010. I wanted to try something involving a material object that had close associations with culture and history, memory and identity, a subject that would be instantly recognizable but at the same time open to a variety of interpretations… In Mao’s China, sunflowers also had a special, symbolic status. In countless pictures, with captions reading “Beloved Chairman Mao, we will always be faithful to you!” or “Chairman Mao Is the Reddest, Reddest Red Sun in Our Hearts,” Mao, smiling smugly, dominated the center of the picture, a huge red sun rising like a halo behind his head, while below a sea of sunflowers turned their enraptured faces toward him, basking in the sunshine of his infallible thought. By March 2010, when I submitted my proposal to the Tate Modern, the concept was clear in my mind: to fill the immense space in the Turbine Hall not with a large, imposing structure but with its opposite. Across the huge floor I would lay a bed of tiny, humble objects: sunflower seeds, one hundred million of them. All yet to be made. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1635446495167-TXMTQL08VV9HG215U4WI/1a.png 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows (Copy) Ai Weiwei with his father, celebrated Chinese poet Ai Qing, at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, November 1959. I was born in 1957, eight years after the founding of the “New China.” My father was forty-seven. When I was growing up, my father rarely talked about the past, because everything was shrouded in the thick fog of the dominant political narrative, and any inquiry into fact ran the risk of provoking a backlash too awful to contemplate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f35944592b38d55a67f2c58/1635447349900-OP3HQSGNN7Z11TX7H5AO/1000+YEARS+OF+JOYS+AND+SORROWS+%28hi-res%29.jpg 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows (Copy) - “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows” is out now. Find out more on aiweiweibook.com.