Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei aftermath: Lego changes policy on bulk sales after backlash from buyers

Good news for Lego lovers. They have done away with the policy where if a buyer wanted to make a bulk purchase they would have to tell the company what the purpose of the project was.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei builds Lego donation network after company refuses him on ‘political grounds’

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will set up a network of collection points to receive Lego block donations after he set off a social media storm by accusing the Danish company of refusing a bulk order on political grounds.

Ai Weiwei says US artist wrong to smash his vase

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who helped make his name smashing a valuable vase in the name of art, said Wednesday that he was miffed about another artist destroying one of his vases in Florida.

Elton John dedicates Beijing show to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei

Pop icon Elton John publicly dedicated his only concert in Beijing to Chinese artist and political critic Ai Weiwei, sending a murmur of shock through audience members accustomed to tight censorship of Western pop shows.

China blocks Ai Weiwei's take on Gangnam Style

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei criticised the government on Thursday for removing from Chinese websites his parody of Korean pop sensation Psy's Gangnam Style video.

China artist Ai Weiwei dances to Gangnam Style with handcuffs

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei is the latest to go Gangnam Style — but in a trademark act of cheeky irreverence, he's thrown in a pair of handcuffs and a poke at Chinese censors.

China rejects Ai Weiwei's lawsuit against tax office

A Beijing court on Friday rejected artist Ai Weiwei's lawsuit against an agency that imposed a more than $2 million fine on his company for tax evasion, a case he says is part of an intimidation campaign to stop him from criticizing the government.

China court's rare move: To hear Ai Weiwei's lawsuit

Chinese courts rarely accept lawsuits filed by dissidents or their relatives. But acceptance of the case is only the first hurdle.

Artist Ai Weiwei sues China's tax dept in 'evasion' case

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei is suing Beijing tax authorities for violating the law by imposing a 15 million yuan tax evasion penalty on the company he works for without allowing him access to evidence and witnesses, Ai said on Friday.

China gives more power to secret dissident detentions

But the ruling Communist Party has retreated from the most draconian part of rules, "residential surveillance", which was proposed last year.