Believing capitalism has resulted in the recent global financial recession, a 52-year-old Thai artist has presented a series of paintings and installation art in an expressionist style. His “Capitalism is Dying!” exhibition is now on display, ... full story
In 2005 it was the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which sent an impressive group of Dutch masters to Melbourne when all but a small section was closed; last year it was the Picasso Museum in Paris, which mounted an exhibition of the master's works in ... full story
Melbourne based auction house Mossgreen recently announced that they would be joining forces with Sydney and Melbourne based art auctioneers Deutscher and Hackett to start a new auction house called Artemis Auctions. According to the Mossgreen website ... full story
By Yael Buencamino MANILA, Philippines – One Saturday afternoon in March, a friend and I headed to the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts thesis presentations to check out what the new batch of artists was up to. ... full story
"My interest is how you can augment things you love and cherish to do something else, give them extra functionalities," said Heiss, who is also a lecturer in interior design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. ... full story
On Thursday, the same day ASIC withdrew its involvement in the case, creditors left a crisis meeting in Sydney "bewildered" after bankruptcy trustee Jirsch Sutherland alleged police were set to abandon the case through lack of resources. ... full story
HANOI, Vietnam—Vietnam is coming to terms with its long-term, relatively accepted practice of art forgery, Time magazine reports. During the Vietnam war, the magazine reports, the Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi began to have copies made of its ... full story
By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) - A burgeoning international art fair in Hong Kong aimed at tapping Asia's growing pool of contemporary art collectors, has shown positive signs of shrugging off the global economic downturn. ... full story
HONK KONG.- Seoul Auction, Korea's leading auction house, held its Modern and Contemporary Art sale today in Hong Kong today (15 May, 2009) and achieved a total of HK$42.8 million (US$5.47 million). Tranquility from the renowned British artist Damien ... full story
The works of art will reflect high standards of creativity and freshness. An interesting aspect of the ISAS Art Exhibition is that all the paintings will be open for bidding and the collective amount from the winning bids will be donated to Dubai ... full story
