• News

New Ai Weiwei Documentary Highlights Activist Art of a Bygone Era, with Mixed Results

The documentary focuses on the creation of the artist's 2014–15 exhibition "@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz" in San Francisco.

• By
  Maximilíano Durón
• Jul 6, 2020 5:39 pm

• Reviews

New Ai Weiwei Documentary Champions the Artist as a Global Activist

The film grew out of his 2014 project on the onetime prison island in San Francisco Bay.

• By
  Barbara Pollack
• Nov 8, 2019 3:12 pm

• Features

Ai Weiwei Breaks into Alcatraz

A rocky island full of crumbling buildings is hardly a typical contemporary art venue. Yet "@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz," a site-specific exhibition of seven new works, could not have found a better…

• By
  Carol Strickland
• Oct 8, 2014 1:58 pm

• News

Ai Weiwei Transfers to Alcatraz

Politically charged installations by Ai Weiwei land on Alcatraz Island

• By
  Barbara Pollack
• Sep 22, 2014 9:30 am

• Features

Get Your Tickets to Ai Weiwei’s Alcatraz

Activist artist Ai Weiwei, infamously held by Chinese authorities for 81 days in spring 2011, is bringing his prison experience to an art installation at the former prison at Alcatraz.

• By
  Leigh Anne Miller
• May 13, 2014 4:26 pm

• Reviews

Zheng Chongbin

For the past two decades, Zheng Chongbin has divided his practice between studios in Shanghai and the Bay Area, synthesizing Chinese and northern Californian modes of abstract painting. His recent…

• By
  Mark Van Proyen
• May 30, 2011 4:21 pm