A local artist paid Ai Weiwei a strange compliment on Sunday by smashing one of the sixteen vases in the Chinese artist and activist’s installation “Colored Vases” at the Pérez Art Museum ...

Maximo Caminero, according to the arrest affidavit, was arrested Sunday and charged with criminal mischief after allegedly picking up, and then smashing an Ai Weiwei vase at the Perez Art Museum ...

Imitation is not the best form of flattery to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. In one of his own famous exhibits, Ai has a photo of himself smashing a valuable Han Dynasty vase for the sake of art.

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who helped make his name smashing a valuable vase in the name of art, said Wednesday that he was miffed about another artist destroying one of ...

Caminero destroyed the vase, a Han Dynasty urn repainted by Ai as part of the work “Colored ... “I saw it as a provocation by Weiwei to join him in an act of performance protest,” Caminero ...

Yesterday, art lovers around the world were shocked when someone strolled into the Pérez Art Museum Miami and destroyed a $1 million vase by Ai Weiwei. Well, the story gets even more shocking.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery — except perhaps when imitation takes the form of smashing a vase by Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei valued at $1 million. Miami artist Maximo ...

“Yesterday (Sunday) a museum visitor intentionally broke a vase in the Ai Weiwei exhibition,” the museum said in a press release. “The museum’s security team immediately secured the ...

He’s been photographed dropping vases before – but that doesn’t mean it’s OK for just anyone to do it. Ai Weiwei has made a name for himself by not only creating visually arresting and ...