For the second year running, the Shanghai festival presented a week-long event called Rising Artists' Work at the Shanghai Theater Academy. It gave more than 30,000 people a chance to see what young artists are doing, and also gave artists and industry ... full story
Aiming to be a win-win platform for both galleries and art buyers, the 2013 Shanghai Art Fair raised its curtain Thursday at ShanghaiMART in Changning district. This year is the 17th edition of the annual event. With an exhibiting area of 24,000 square ... full story
The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ) recently attracted attention from an unlikely place: the art world. The zone, which has largely been billed by the media as a testing ground for experimental economic and financial reforms, is reportedly ... full story
An exhibit called “New Form 1”, which is running in Hanoi until Dec 6, features local artists' experimental contemporary sculpture works as an attempt to make the art part of locals' spiritual lives. The exhibit, which is running at Mai Gallery, 12 ... full story
Brace yourself before you enter the world of Tetsuya Ishida, because the Japanese artist's empty gaze might leave you bereft of something – peace, perhaps, or a good night's sleep – for a long time after you leave Gagosian Gallery. Although this is the ... full story
Money – dough, moolah, cash, bucks, however you want to say it – is perennially on the mind of most people, in some way or rather. But few would have taken their fascination with money as far as Yinka Shonibare, the prominent Nigerian-British art, does ... full story
“More important than the visitor numbers is that it started a debate about what art is,” says Michael Lynch, chief executive of the West Kowloon Cultural District, an arts and entertainment development area covering 40 hectares in the heart of Hong ... full story
There's no denying that Hong Kong's arts scene has exploded in recent years. But while becoming the world's third-biggest art auction market and the arrival this year of Art Basel added much gloss to the city's image, some say the local art gallery ... full story
From 20 to 28 November 2013, member galleries of the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association are to present a series of events as part of the first ever Art Gallery Week. As the city has benefited from an increasingly active artistic scene over the past few ... full story
As art fairs go, Art Taipei can be a bit quirky. At most fairs, the best and most expensive works sell during the vernissage, a VIP-only event that gives high profile collectors first access. In Taipei however, much of the business happens in the fair ... full story
