“I’m like a shattered mirror,” the artist Ai Weiwei tells W one morning in a cozy corner of the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), ...

But he’s also revitalized Chinese art with his constant currents of passion, humor, and surprise. So it isn’t terribly ...

Ahead of his largest-ever exhibition in the U.S., the dissident artist reflects on collecting jade and living below ground.

In fact, in an interview from 2010, Ai Weiwei deemed China’s bureaucracy as his readymade. He noted: “Duchamp had the bicycle wheel, Warhol had the image of Mao. I have a totalitarian regime.