REUTERS/Dadang Tri A woman collects cardboard in a Hong Kong street on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Earth Day is celebrated worldwide every April 22, marking the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. ... full story
And, if you're not quite done maxing out your credit card, there's yet another sale the very next day, the Christie's auction of ‘International Modern and Contemporary Art'. If, however, you're actually aware there'sa recession going on, ... full story
Christie's Dubai has planned a major auction of international modern and contemporary art including more than 150 works representing artists from Mena and Turkey, alongside a few by western artists. The auction will take place on April 29 at the ... full story
A decade ago, Bull took a year-long trip to Asia to escape the Paris-New York syndrome and he came back with the dream of creating an art go-to centre in Vancouver that truly reflected the ethnic composition of the city. He dreamt of a place for new ... full story
Jakarta residents should fight for art and cultural spaces in the city lest they be swallowed by economic powers, an academic said. Speaking in a general lecture at the German cultural center Goethehaus, Catholic priest and lecturer Mudji Sutrisno, ... full story
With flights to Australia now priced reasonably--round trips from New York to Sydney are currently available for around $850--Vivid Sydney, the city's month-long art, design and music festival--must sound appealing to those with itchy feet. ... full story
Now, thanks to the Beijing Olympics, and the efforts of people like David Tse Ka Shing, all that is changing. Tse Ka Shing is creative director of the Chinatown Arts Space (CAS), started in 2003 by a group of British East Asian artist who wanted to ... full story
Dubai , UAE - April 19, 2009: The Farjam Collection, the first art venue of its kind in Dubai, recently opened in the DIFC to present a series of rotating exhibitions drawn from Farhad Farjam's extensive art collection. ... full story
You'd be hard pressed to find elsewhere such a plethora of art galleries, museums, bookstores, academic forums, and theatrical performances. It would be no hyperbole to suggest that Dubai is to the new millennium what Baghdad, Cairo and Damascus were ... full story
vietnamnet Bridge - A gala night of the Singaporean art troupe Nanyang Academy Of Fine Arts (NAFA) with the performance of Montenegrin pianist Boris Kraljevic was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on April 18. Other artists from Hong Kong and Vietnam joined ... full story
