That historic weakness is about to be challenged by two new private museums of contemporary art in Shanghai. One is the Long Museum, the brainchild of Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei, a billionaire couple who develop property and buy art. The other one is the ... full story
Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said in a press conference after a cabinet meeting that neo-patrons will receive a bonus tax, called "art bonus," of 65 percent of their donation over the next three years. The decree law, which must be converted ... full story
The inaugural exhibition is due to close on 18 November and subsequent shows are still being planned. “Now we are meeting, the academic committee, and charting the future roadmap,” Tek says. “We are always going to exhibit worldwide contemporary art, ... full story
The “No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia” exhibition opened on May 10 and runs until July 10 at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Singapore. It is the inaugural touring exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art ... full story
And while many of these so-called ATMs aren't much more than bitcoin vending machines (in that they allow only for one-way transactions), the people of Beijing, China can now say their city is home to a two-way bitcoin ATM. It made it's debut during a ... full story
The past four years of the Beijing Nanluoguxiang Performing Arts Festival has marked it as an event, where experimental ideas and art meet. This year, there will be a noticeable Japanese tinge to the annual event. Over the course of the festival's 10 ... full story
Artist Bian Guoqiang has spent 20 years painting Beijing's courtyard houses in Chinese ink, framing the cultural landmark of Beijing as permanent scenes. Bian's ongoing show at Tianjin Art Museum, Life in Hutong and Courtyards, displays more than 160 ... full story
Yokoyama Taikan (1868-1958) was born in the prefecture of Ibaraki but he moved to Tokyo in 1878. This period of history in Japan would witness many events because time didn't stand still during the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods of history.full story
This is just one of the theatrical and mystifying moments in Hiroshi Sugimoto's exhibition Aujourd'hui, le monde est mort (Lost Human Genetic Archive) at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Part of a riveting cycle of shows that fill the building, Sugimoto's ... full story
Lee Jay Walker at Modern Tokyo Times comments: “Aspects of the life of Isoda Koryusai remain vague because it wasn't until the 1760s that he begins to make an impression in the field of art. Much speculation is stated about his early life and why he ... full story
