By Bryce S. Dubee, Stars and Stripes A manga, or Japanese comic book, artist gives an art demonstration at the 2009 Tokyo International Anime Fair. Nearly 130000 people attended this year's fair to check out the latest in Japanese animation. ... full story
Repetition and a perceived pandering to the market eventually brought down what was until last year the hottest category around: Chinese contemporary art. Some Chinese artists became almost instant millionaires thanks to work that was probably bigger ... full story
It’s not only the images of celebrities like President Ho Chi Minh and musician Trinh Cong Son that Le Nguyen Vy sets in stone, he also likes to capture famous landscapes like Ha Long Bay and Ngu Hanh Son Mountain. The process is delicate and precise ... full story
... Museum's Department of Asian Art. It will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue written by Soyoung Lee with jahyun Kim Haboush (Columbia University), Sunpyo Hong (Ewha Woman's University), and Chin-Sung Chang (Seoul National University). ... full story
KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 (Bernama) -- The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, today launched the ILHAM Art Exhibition 2009 here. The exhibition, organised jointly by Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) and the Malaysian Industrial Development ... full story
Christopher Hodges from Utopia Art Sydney, who has represented the Western Desert's famous Papunya Tula Artists since 1988, said he had never met Mr Ioannou and only knew what he had read about him in the papers. This included reports of Mr Ioannou's ... full story
... Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art (Tokyo) and the Kitakyushu Museum of Art (Kitakyushu), San Diego Museum of Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, San Bernardino County Museum, Burbank Municipal Art Gallery (Burbank, CA), Los Angeles Municipal Art ... full story
HONG KONG (NTDTV) -- A popular art charity in Hong Kong is highlighting the conditions of the island's “cage men.” These men live stacked on top of each other in old tenement flats in often squalid conditions. The Schoeni Gallery normally deals with ... full story
Everywhere you turn, there's a dramatic vista, or a work of art acting as a visual anchor to pull you into a new space. (The recent addition to New York's Museum of Modern Art attempts similar sightlines, Kan notes, "but does not succeed. ... full story
Rinder's experience as curator has included a stint as director of the Wattis Institute at California College of the Arts and six years at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. To prepare "Galaxy," "I spent several months going through all ... full story
