Seeing sunflowers romping over fields in the countryside is one thing but stumbling across a vast swath of them in an industrial pocket of inner-city Melbourne is quite another. The bright and leggy annual is running riot in Kensington - on a 1.8 ... full story
However, The Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012 exhibition at the city's leading art museum offers a fine example of high quality, circumspect modern art at its best. The work is delicately understated and deeply expressive. Quite a feat when you ... full story
It takes both as its model and its locus of production that artistic bastion of hand-made replication and appropriation, the 'artist's village' of Dafen village in Shenzhen, which originally grew out of Hong Kong's souvenir/trade painting. As a ... full story
12 last year, smashing the world record for the most expensive piece of art auctioned. Photo: AFP. Global art sales hit a new record high of US$12.05 billion in 2013 with China keeping its spot as the top buyer, a leading art market data firm said ... full story
Titled #IAMSORRY, the show apparently consisted of Shia sitting at a table silently offering fans a variety of odd objects. The actor wore a paper bag on his head and reportedly had a very unsettling manner. "I walk into the gallery. A lady is standing ... full story
Over 170 strangers gathered at the Today Art Museum in Beijing the night before Valentine's day to hold one another in tender embrace as part of a social experiment. Some of the participants hugged it out for several minutes talking about their past ... full story
A new art and antiques fair is planned for this year in Beijing, to be run by Fine Art Asia (FAA), which has been successfully organising fairs in Hong Kong since 2005. The new project comes after a joint Tefaf/Sotheby's venture was abandoned due to ... full story
As ever, Dubai's annual art fair looks set to be a jam-packed four days of art, education, prizes and intellectual conversation. The full programme for the eighth edition was announced today with even more galleries, a fascinating Marker section and ... full story
There is news that an old plan of the ministry of higher and technical education is to be placed before the cabinet soon. The plan, first announced in 2009 by the minister Shri Rajesh Tope, was to set up a full-fledged university dedicated to the ... full story
BACC presents “Concept Context Contestation: Art And The Collective In Southeast Asia”, an exhibition featuring more than 50 pieces from 40 artists in the Asean region. While these works conceptualise the issues that shape each country in the region ... full story
