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Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei at Seattle Art Museum

The Seattle Art Museum is exhibiting "Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai WeiWei” from March 12 to September 7, 2025. Globally renowned artist Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957) is celebrated as a disruptor of artistic canons and a champion of free expression. In his work—ranging across performance, photography, sculpture, video, and installation—he deploys humor and provocation, calling upon his viewers to examine history, society, and culture. Organized by SAM, Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei highlights the artistic strategies of his 40-year career for questioning forms of power. Explore these themes and more in these books and films, compiled by a librarian at the Seattle Public Library.

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  • Ai Weiwei

    According to What? = Ai Weiwei

    Ai, Weiwei
    BookWashington, D.C. : Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ; Tokyo : Mori Art Museum ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books-Prestel, [2012] — 709.5109 Ai1A 2012
  • Ai Weiwei

    Circle of Animals

    Ai, Weiwei
    BookMunich ; New York : Prestel, [2011] — 730.92 Ai1A 2011
  • Streaming VideoIFC Films, 2012. — EVIDEO KANOPY
  • Streaming VideoFirst Run Features, 2019. — EVIDEO KANOPY
  • Streaming VideoAi Weiwei, 2020. — EVIDEO KANOPY
  • Streaming VideoAi Weiwei Studio, 2009. — EVIDEO KANOPY
  • Streaming VideoParticipant Media, 2017. — EVIDEO KANOPY
  • BookPrinceton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018] — 704.94932 Ai1A 2018
  • Zodiac

    a Graphic Memoir

    Ai, Weiwei
    Graphic NovelNew York, NY : Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, [2024] — 741.5951 Ai1A 2024
  • The Art of Activism

    Your All-purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible

    Duncombe, Stephen
    BookNew York : O/R, [2021] — 701.03 D914A 2021
  • Art Works

    How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together

    Grossinger, Ken
    BookNew York: New Press, 2023. — 701.03 G9146A 2023
  • A Mouth Is Always Muzzled

    Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance

    Hopkinson, Natalie
    BookNew York : The New Press, c2018. — 700.9045 H7774M 2018
  • Acts of Resistance

    the Power of Art to Create a Better World

    Massie-Blomfield, Amber
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2025. — 701.03 M3858A 2025
  • Make a Zine!

    Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution

    Biel, Joe
    BookPortland, OR : Microcosm Publishing, [2022] — 070.572 B4761M 2022
  • Giant Robot

    Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture

    Book[Montreal, Quebec] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2024. — 305.89507 G3488 2024
  • 100 Dollars & a T-shirt

    a Documentary About Zines in the Northwest

    Streaming VideoMVD Entertainment Group, 2008. — EVIDEO KANOPY
  • Sub Pop USA

    the Subterranean Pop Music Anthology, 1980-1988

    Pavitt, Bruce, 1959-
    BookBrooklyn, New York : Bazillion Points, 2014. — 781.66 P2889S 2014