Organised by the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) with the theme If The World Changed, the fourth edition of the island state's biennial contemporary art event features works by 82 artists and art collectives from 13 different countries. Interestingly ... full story
6 (CNA) Culture Minister Lung Ying-tai will set off on a four-day trip to Hong Kong on Friday to promote Taiwan's performing arts groups and deepen cultural exchanges between the two sides. Making her second visit to Hong Kong since assuming office in ... full story
Hong Kong-based ink artist Fung Ming Chip is humble when talking about his accomplished career spanning over 30 years. "So many good things have happened to me, I don't think I deserve it. I'm just lucky," he says over tea as we discuss his exhibition, ... full story
Mui Cheuk-yin and Ng Mei-kwan - newly elected representatives at the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, representing the dance and literary arts sectors respectively - both took part in the programme yesterday. Ng worried about cultural differences, ... full story
With artwork sprawled on queen-sized beds, hung in front of television sets and even placed on toilet counters, Hong Kong's Asia Contemporary Art Show has an unusual take on what constitutes an art gallery.and more »full story
A group of boisterous drunken men twirl around as they two-step across Kyoto's Gojo-ohashi bridge on their way back from a "hanami" cherry blossom viewing party. Also dancing wildly while waving their fans are the men guiding a "mikoshi" portable ... full story
Born just outside the ancient capital of Kyoto in 1975 as the youngest of three children to schoolteacher parents, Mr. Nawa studied at the Kyoto City University of Art, and counts the art of Buddhism and Japan's native Shintoism as among his early ... full story
Brett Gorvy, head of post-war and contemporary art at Christie's, said sales had been revolutionized by new collectors looking for the best. A wealth of billionaires from Asia, China, the Gulf, Latin America and Russia were injecting huge cash into a ... full story
That's because it's the lavish accompaniment to its new exhibition, “Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art.” Almost every one of those hundreds of pictures, including some in glorious, meter-long fold-out, is an example of the titular Japanese ... full story
German professor Ute Meta Bauer is set to give a talk on contemporary art at Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and the Humanities later today, Nov 2. The talk, titled “Other knowledge”, will take place at Hall D.404 at 6pm. Prof Bauer will ... full story
