AI WEIWEI

An obsolete sedan once gifted to a Romanian dictator allows opponents of Tehran’s authoritarian regime to put an artistic spin on their dissent. Other activists should take note.

The dissident Chinese architect behind the Beijing stadium hosting Friday’s opening ceremony of the Winter Games has scoffed at the head of the U.N. health agency, saying China should award him “a gold medal” for not asking hard questions about its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ai Weiwei, possibly China’s best-known dissident, aired criticism of Beijing’s human rights record and response to the pandemic, in an interview with The Associated Press Friday, in which he also took aim at World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

For China's leader, a successful Winter Games means international validation. It proves that he has strengthened China and the world must play along.

China invited the world back — sort of — for the pandemic era’s second Olympics.

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are opening with the same concerns that loomed over the 2008 Beijing Olympics: China's record on human rights and its treatment of Tibetans and Uyghur Muslims in western China.

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics open in just over a week.

The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing will allow China to show the world “a fake smile,” just as it did for the 2008 Summer Games.

Some are politically outspoken; some just want to create beauty. This week, Chinese cartoonist and activist Badiucao is the latest artist to appear on the broadcast.

Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei has warned about political correctness in the U.S., saying its perpetuation has already turned the country into an authoritarian state without people knowing it. About Ai Weiwei: Ai, 64, is a contemporary artist who openly criticizes the Chinese Communist Party. Ai’s protest against government oppression is reflected in his work.

A provocative exhibit by dissident Chinese artist Badiucao has opened in the industrial northern Italian city of Brescia despite pressure by the Chinese embassy in Rome to cancel it.

Hong Kong’s swanky new M+ museum is Asia’s largest gallery with a billion-dollar collection set to open on Friday.

Just hours before the HBO documentary “Jagged” was to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday, Alanis Morissette criticized the film about her life as “reductive” and “salacious.”.

Before the pandemic, conferences and trade shows attracted more than 1 billion participants and $1 trillion in direct spending annually. In-person meetings are rebounding but experts say it could be years before they attract pre-COVID crowds. (Sept. 9)

Chinese car manufacturer Great Wall Motors takes aim at the European car market at the IAA Mobility show in Munich. (Sept. 8)

CBS News Business Analyst Jill Schlesinger explains why there is a supply shortage, what items will see the most impact and what consumers should consider during their upcoming holiday shopping.

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is putting on the biggest show of his career, and he is doing it in a place he’s fallen in love with: Portugal.

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is putting on the biggest show of his career, and he is doing it in a place he’s fallen in love with: Portugal. Ai arrived in Portugal almost two years ago and says he has no plans to return to Germany or England, where he has also lived since leaving China in 2015. “I have a great feeling” about Portugal, the artist said Thursday.

People walk in front of "M+" visual culture museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong, Monday, March 29, 2021. Hong Kong authorities have taken a tougher stance on opposition following Beijing’s imposition of a national security law on the city, arresting prominent pro-democracy activists and participants in anti-government protests in 2019. Earlier this month, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said authorities were on “full alert” to ensure that exhibitions in the city do not violate the national security law. Pro-Beijing lawmakers have said that some of M+’s artwork is politically sensitive and could be in breach of the legislation. Searches for “Nomadland” were blocked on the Chinese internet, which is heavily censored and filtered to scrub content deemed politically sensitive by the government.

China is rolling out the state-backed film praising Wuhan ahead of the anniversary of the 76-day lockdown in the central Chinese city where the coronavirus was first detected. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)(AP) – Two new films about Wuhan were released Friday, the eve of the anniversary of the 76-day lockdown in the central Chinese city where the coronavirus was first detected. The state-backed film, directed by Cao Jinling, debuted in Wuhan and goes into general release in other Chinese cities on Friday. Ai’s film tackles the same story from the perspective of construction workers, delivery staff, medical workers and Wuhan residents. ___Associated Press photographer Ng Han Guan in Wuhan, China, and writer Huizhong Wu in Taipei, Taiwan, contributed to this report.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out Monday Jan. 4, 2021, whether he can be extradited from the U.K. to the U.S. to face espionage charges over the publication of secret American military documents. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)LONDON – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out Monday whether he can be extradited from the U.K. to the U.S. to face espionage charges over the publication of secret American military documents. U.S. prosecutors indicted the 49-year-old Assange on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse that carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison. His legal team argued that Assange would, if extradited, likely face solitary confinement that would put him at a heightened risk of suicide. Assange and his legal team will be hoping that developments in the U.S. bring an end to his ordeal if the judge grants the U.S. extradition request.

An elderly woman with COVID-19, center, is escorted by two nurses after being admitted to a hospital in Wuhan, China in a scene from the documentary "76 Days." The film, shot in four Wuhan hospitals, captures a local horror before it became a global nightmare. (MTV Documentary Films via AP)NEW YORK – “Papa!” screams a hospital worker, covered from head to toe in a Hazmat suit and PPE, in the opening moments of the documentary “76 Days." Her colleagues restrain her as she sobs, moaning, “Papa, you'll stay forever in my heart.”“76 Days," shot in four Wuhan hospitals, captures a local horror before it became a global nightmare. “I feel like right now there is such a toxic background to a lot of the discussions around the virus,” Wu says.

In this image made from a Skype video interview with Chinese artist dissident Ai Weiwei comments on the recent security law planned for Hong kong from a location in Cambridge, England, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Ai Weiwei believes the newly passed national security law for Hong Kong augurs the end for the semi-autonomous city. (AP Photo/Park Juwon)SEOUL Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei believes the newly passed national security law for Hong Kong augurs the end for the semi-autonomous city. Critics of the new law say it may allow mainland security organs to interfere in local law enforcement, among other things. Young people in Hong Kong, they are smart, they are rational, and they are very brave, Ai said.

Just as their mediums differ, the artists "60 Minutes" has profiled also have varying perspectives on what their work means. Here's a look back at some of the other artists whose work "60 Minutes" has featured. Chinese activist Ai WeiweiArt on "60 Minutes": Ai WeiweiLike Bradford, Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei thinks art should make a statement. "I think every art, if it's relevant, is political," Ai told Holly Williams when she interviewed him for "60 Minutes" in 2017. Christo and Jeanne-ClaudeArt on "60 Minutes": Christo & Jeanne-ClaudeFor husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne-Claude, art was nothing more than a striking thing to see.

There's much to be excited about here, including seven site-specific artworks commissioned to be inaugurated along with the Kinder Building. Another tunnel, this one connecting the Kinder Building and the Glassell School of Art, will be illuminated with yellow lights. A metallic tapestry by El Anatsui, also monumental in scale, will be installed in the Kinder Building just outside the Cruz-Diez tunnel. At the main entrance to the Kinder Building, museum-goers will encounter a sculptural pool by Cristina Iglesias. Upon completion, the Kinder Building will add 183,528 square feet, which includes 53,685 square feet for below ground parking while still devoting 56 percent to exhibition spaces.

The Hostage Policy, Out of Darkness, Enemy of the State Should the U.S. government pay ransom money? Lesley Stahl reports. Then, restoring eyesight with a simple, inexpensive surgery; and, how Chinese artist Ai Weiwei became an enemy-of-the-state.

Artist turns world's most notorious prison into gallery Fans of artist Ai Weiwei will be able to view his unusual art in an unlikely place. Soon visitors will be able to see an exhibit at one of the world's most notorious former prisons: Alcatraz. Visitors will be able to enter an area from which they had been previously barred. KPIX-TV's John Ramos reports.