The leading Chinese artist-activist lends a global perspective on the refugee crisis in his elegant new documentary. By Jordan Riefe In the opening moments of Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei’s new ...

Human Flow by Chinese-born artist Ai Weiwei catapulted above a crowded list of new Specialty releases over the weekend, topping out a fairly unimpressive Friday to Sunday among limited releases. The ...

The Chinese artist and activist questions why so much media attention is given to victims of the Houston floods and so little to victims of Bangladesh floods. By Ariston Anderson With more people ...

“Human Flow” takes an abstract tragedy — the fact that some 65 million people worldwide are refugees — and make it tangible, real, unavoidable. It does not browbeat or preach, it simply shows, and ...

Some time ago, Ai Weiwei’s fame eclipsed his art, so what he does with that fame really does matter. In his first feature-length documentary (he’s made video installations in the past), the Chinese ...

Ai WeiWei shares his contact details with a group of Palestinian women in Gaza during the filming of Human Flow, May 2016. (Reuters / Mohammed Salem) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the ...

In a scene of startling beauty in Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow, a group of refugees huddles together, with light bouncing off golden insulation blankets handed out by workers to warm them up as they arrive ...

"No one leaves their country lightly." These six words are uttered by an Afghan refugee as she's struggling to make her way from her shattered homeland to safety in Europe. Those sentiments form the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Three stars. Rated PG-13. 145 minutes. The Chinese contemporary visual artist Ai Weiwei — whose portraits of political dissidents, formed from Lego blocks, ...

Even from within the walls of the secret police detention centre where he was held for 81 days in 2011, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was thinking about those who, like him, had lost their freedom and were ...