But he carried on, as Roger Marx put it, “pursuing the renewal of his art according to his own vision and his own means.” ...

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another.

That was 66 years ago. The Portland Art Museum bought “Waterlilies” in 1959 for $60,000 (just over $650,000 in today’s money, ...

In Water Lilies #1, Ai probes notions of reality and artifice ... Ai Weiwei first deployed Lego bricks as an art medium in 2014 when he used them to create portraits of political prisoners. Now a key ...