Art collectors sued Keith Haring's foundation Friday, saying it has cost them at least US$40 million by publicly labeling about 90 paintings by the late artist as “counterfeit” and “fake” as it refuses to fully evaluate them. The lawsuit in US District ...full story
A fake Marc Chagall painting, owned by a businessman from Leeds, in north England, who had bought it for US$167,309 in 1992, was ordered to be burned last month and an Istanbul art gallery closed down its Joan Miro exhibition in 2013 after directors of ...full story
An instillation entitled "Colored Vases" by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, on Oct. 28, 2011. A Florida man smashed one of Ai's vases on display in Miami. (Wally Santana/AP). A South Florida artist is ...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
Ronald Perelman can pursue a claim that art gallery owner Larry Gagosian used his position of trust to force the billionaire to buy a Jeff Koons sculpture of the cartoon character Popeye for US$4 million, a judge ruled. New York State Supreme Justice ...full story
Taipei, Jan. 27 (CNA) An outdoor exhibition featuring 1,600 pandas and 200 Formosan black bears -- made from recycled paper -- will be held in Taipei in late February to raise awareness of wildlife conservation, Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin said Monday.'Pandas on Tour' art exhibit to be displayed at Taipei City Hallfull story
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- An exhibition of 37 works of Johannes Vermeer, the master of light demonstration in art, will be kicking off today at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. Thirty-seven of Vermeer's celebrated works will be displayed via digital printing ...full story
Since 2002, Lead Jade has been entering Taipei communities and interacting with residents to create collaborative art installations in shared public space. An increasing number of artists and designers have been cooperating with NGOs while other ...full story
While her childhood was spent in the south of Taiwan, she moved to Taipei to study art at National Taiwan Normal University, becoming the first female from Meinong to go to university, which created quite a stir in her hometown as it was thought at the ...full story
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- UBS recently announced that a traveling exhibition of 19 world-renowned contemporary art pieces from the UBS Art Collection has kicked off at the Bellavita Art Gallery, Taipei. Entitled “Factory — 50 Years of Art and Consumer Culture ...full story