Artist
Ai Weiwei
How much Ai Weiwei is covered by the international art press, measured across 479 outlets in seven languages.
- 22nd of 187,161 artists covered this year
- 743 mentions on record
- 80 outlets
- 163rd their position last year
The outlets citing them
- Artribune 319
- ArtReview 102
- artcritical 37
- artpress 28
- Art Asia Pacific 13
- ARTE!Brasileiros 8
- Artslife 8
What it is about
- exhibition 249
- festival-fair 89
- publication 64
- other 51
- institutional 50
- artist 43
Where they appeared recently
- Renzo Nucara on Snails, Slowness, and the Art System 2026-09-05
- Cuauhtémoc Medina to Curate Guatemala's Bienal de Arte Paiz 25th Edition 2026-09-03
- Berlin State Museums Announce 2027 Program: Meese, Ai Weiwei, and Pergamon Reopening 2026-09-02
- ArtAsiaPacific's September/October Issue Explores Dissolving Categories 2026-08-27
- Artist Gao Zhen Sentenced to Three Years in Chinese Prison for Mao-Critical Works 2026-08-26
- Glasstire's Top Five Texas Art Events: August 20, 2026 2026-08-26
How to read these numbers
A mention is an appearance in a story published by one of the 479 outlets we follow. Stories are grouped: if ten outlets cover the same event, it counts once.
Rankings and shares are always read against other artists in the same period, never as absolute counts, because our archive keeps growing.
The count measures how much they are discussed, not their worth. And absence from a period means we did not record it, not that nobody wrote about them.
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