For the first six months of the year, 32 artists, curators, writers and practitioners were quietly completing the pilot programme for Campus Art Dubai (CAD), a joint initiative by Dubai Culture and Arts Authority and Art Dubai. One Saturday a month ... full story
Various Iranian art pieces have fetched high prices at Dubai Christie's during its seasonal Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art sale. Parviz Tanavoli's a six foot tall sculpture titled “Oh Persepolis II” fetched $940,000 on first ... full story
“More people are buying art. If you look at the gallery scene five or six years ago, there were seven or eight galleries, there are now 50 or 60 galleries in Dubai alone- that's a clear indicator of the growth in demand for art. We're also seeing more ... full story
During a sale on 20 October by Christie's Dubai, a painting by an artist from the region - Fahr El-Nissa Zeid's Break of the Atom and Vegetal Life - sold for $2,741,000 (AED10,064,952). This is the second highest price ever to be made on a work by a ... full story
Your Portrait was one of Kudo Testsumi's favorite and most frequently used titles. While the word "you" indicated the person looking at the work, and suggested that we are constrained by a variety of established values and conventions, it also referred ... full story
(Around Osaka, escalator etiquette is reversed.) 3. Drink outside, smoke inside. The more enclosed a space is, the more likely you'll be allowed to smoke there. ... If you take a detour down a little unmarked road (most Japanese streets are unnamed ... full story
It collapsed in Hong Kong in May, got stuck under a bridge in Osaka last month, and yesterday exploded in Taiwan. The iconic creation of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman began to droop at its display site in Taoyuan on Thursday night, victim of a power ... full story
Osaka's National Museum of Art is to present “Your Portrait: A Testsumi Kudo Retrospective”, to run between 2 November 2013, and 19 January 2014. The show's title, “Your Portrait”, is inspired by Kudo's preferred title, with the innocent-looking phrase ... full story
A branch of the National Museum of Contemporary Art will open in Seoul on Nov. 13. It will be located just across from Gyeongbukgung Palace in a site formerly occupied by the Defense Security Demand headquarters in Jongno district. As an attraction ... full story
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) currently has two branches in Gwacheon, just south of Seoul, and Deoksu Palace in downtown Seoul, and is constructing another one in Cheongju, about 137 kilometers south of Seoul.and more »full story
