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

Ai Weiwei was left wondering if he’d ever see the outside world ... to “Snake Ceiling”—a huge snake assembled from 857 cloth ...

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.

UPDATED to note producer and executive producer of Ai Weiwei’s Turandot. CPH:DOX, the renowned documentary festival in ...