Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District project lunged forward this June with the release of a blueprint for the M+ visual culture museum, to be built on Victoria Harbor. The project, launched in 2008 with the appropriation of a HK$21.6 billion (US ... full story
The Royal Academy of Arts, London (RA), has stated its strengthened commitment to helping facilitate professional development within the arts industry in Hong Kong through reciprocal education programmes and on-going creative dialogue with Hong ... full story
Internationally, the film had a wide theatrical release and was invited to a number of art fairs, including Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Fair Tokyo, and Art Taipei. In Japan, Sasaki and a group of volunteers self-distributed the film and set the 2010 box ... full story
DUBAI: Inside the gallery, artworks by Syrian artists were drawing auction bids from collectors. Outside on the street, the artists traded the latest gossip from Syria and checked their smartphones for news from the civil war. So goes the divided world ... full story
The Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the emirate's dedicated Authority for culture, arts, and heritage, will launch the second edition of 'Dubai Next,' a platform aimed at promoting the thriving cultural industry of Dubai, at the ... full story
In this Monday, Sept. 16, 2013 photo, auctioneer Hisham Samawi, left, auctions a piece by the Syrian artist Tammam Azzam, titled "Syrian Olympic," which appears on the monitor, right, during an auction at Ayyam gallery, that moved from Damascus to ... full story
I'm a sucker for a souvenir cushion. The second day that I lived in Dubai, I bought a snazzy little gold-threaded number emblazoned with the face of the UAE's fabulously fierce founding father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, complete with Ray-Ban ... full story
A major new exhibition dedicated to the art of Australia opens on Saturday at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Many of the works on display ... “It also has the best selection of Impressionist pictures, and outstanding Asian and Oceanic art.” ngv ... full story
Bhopal: Legendary artist Maqbool Fida Husain's landmark painting 'Bhopal', which depicts the horrors of the 1984 industrial tragedy, is set to go under the hammer on October 8 at the Bonhams Auction House in London with a pre-sale estimate of up to 300 ... full story
The auction, organised by the Lahore-based not-for-profit organisation Pakistan Rising, is scheduled to take place on the preview night for the Bonhams Islamic/South Asian Contemporary Art Auction. The artists who have donated their works for the cause ... full story
