By Le-Min Lim April 3 (Bloomberg) -- An 8th-century tortoiseshell vanity box, said to be a gift from the Tang Dynasty palace to Japan’s Emperor Shomu, may fetch more than HK$40 million ($5 million) in Hong Kong at Asia’s first major art auction this ... full story
By Le-Min Lim April 6 (Bloomberg) -- A work by I Nyoman Masriadi was the top lot yesterday in Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction -- at a price that was a fifth of the record for the artist set last year. Art dealers said demand was being held back by economic ... full story
... she is schmoozing potential donors in the teahouse of the Chinese garden at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. Moser, the assistant vice president for advancement, tells tales of courting Hong Kong tycoons ... full story
Collectors’ interest in Chinese contemporary art will be gauged today, when Sotheby’s in Hong Kong auctions 155 lots of contemporary Asian art estimated at about HK$61 million ($7.9 million). Photography will be among the works for sale, ... full story
"Netsuke" -- miniature sculptures made of ivory, boxwood or animal horn that Japanese men have traditionally worn to decorate their kimono belts -- have become the latest target of counterfeit artists in Hong Kong and China. ... full story
The first Al Manakh (2006) is available at the bookstore at Dubai Art Fair, featuring detailed analyses of cities like Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai and Kuwait City. Contributions from international and regional architects and planners plus contributions from ... full story
... educational arts programs including New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in Abu Dhabi and Virginia Commonwealth's School of Art in Qatar; and the Dubai Art Fair, Artist Pension Trust in Dubai, the Gulf Arab Art Fair and the Sharjah Biennial ... full story
Dubai: Shaikh Maktoum Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, on Wednesday opened Art Dubai 2009 with the unprecedented line-up of 68 galleries under the patronage of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President ... full story
The price tags on the lots may not be anything near the staggering figures quoted for recent auctions of European and Asian art organised by Christie's three-day auction of hundreds of items that belonged to the late French designer, Yves Saint Laurent ... full story
Yet Zonana was unsure whether he would return to Arteamericas for a fifth time next year: “In this moment, I want to go to fairs of contemporary art, not Latin American.” He was disappointed to find the works at this edition less contemporary and more ... full story
