New Ai Weiwei Documentary Highlights Activist Art of a Bygone Era, with Mixed Results

How do an artist and a curator collaborate on a site-specific installation? That question forms the core on the latest film about one of the world’s most famous living artists, Ai Weiwei. Titled Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly, the feature-length documentary looks at the development of Ai’s 2014–15 exhibition “@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz” in San Francisco, which was organized by the film’s director, Cheryl Haines, through the For-Site Foundation, where she serves as