Vandals scrawled anti-Semitic messages across the splayed steel structure.
More than $2 million was raised in less than a week to help being and end to bonded labor in the Middle Eastern country.
Madame Tussauds has also issued a statement after several pictures of men and women with the statue started circulating online.
Official media say Ai Weiwei should now steer clear of politics and get closer to the people, but Internet users defend him as China's "conscience."
Officials are trying to stop antiquities smuggling, but may be digging themselves into a hole.
In a landmark week for the art world, Louise Sacco of the Museum of Bad Art talks about why great art isn't the only kind that matters.
Many have pointed to Christie's record-breaking $1 billion auction week as a sign of widening global income inequality.
Prominent performance artist and sculptor Chris Burden has died in his home outside Los Angeles.
Trimpe passed away on Tuesday. His career featured some legendary works in the comic book industry.
Van Gogh wrote his brother Theo more than 600 letters. They are where most of his quotes come from today.
Documentary filmmaker Phelim McAleer said audiences will decide if Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson was at fault in Michael Brown's death.
Sukumaran's portrait of Indonesian President Joko Widodo was due to be sold at the exhibit.
The Grammy Awards were an eventful night for Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
If the price were confirmed, then Paul Gauguin's "Nafea Faa Ipoipo" would have fetched what may be the highest price ever paid for a piece of art.
China has exerted control over culture and academia recently, but art sales have also been a vehicle for bribery.
Twitter was lit up by reactions to the comedy about a plot to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
Have you been curious what the deaths of famous people smelled like? A Dutch museum thinks you should be.
ISIS has oil, but it also benefits handsomely from the sale of stolen ancient artifacts. The West is a big customer.
"Calvin and Hobbes" illustrator Bill Watterson released new artwork Wednesday, but it doesn't include his two most famous characters.
A giant sculpture resembling an anal plug was vandalized and subsequently removed from the international art fair.
Spanish archeologists discovered a glass paten with a depiction of a beardless Jesus Christ.
The author of 30 books, mainly novels, was named as the 2014 award winner by the Swedish Academy on Thursday.
NYC's SVA is defending its students’ free-speech rights following a backlash over a photo called “Dolphin Rape Cave.”
A Los Angeles artist will publicly display the leaked nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton as part of a "Fear Google" campaign.
Once thought of as a group of people with limited artistic history, Neanderthal intellectual ability is now being questioned.
New York’s swanky art world loves free labor. Why do job boards like New York Foundation for the Arts enable it?
A Russian activist group mocked Barack Obama with a projection in which the president swallowed a banana.
Poppies abound at commemorations marking the start of WWI on Aug. 4, 1914.
Peru experts are expecting that the auction could raise at least $1 million from the sale of about 150 items.
The piano will be one of the highlights of 30 items from the classic World War II drama put up for sale by a private collector.