By Le-Min Lim April 3 (Bloomberg) -- An 8th-century tortoiseshell vanity box, said to be a gift from the Tang Dynasty palace to Japan’s Emperor Shomu, may fetch more than HK$40 million ($5 million) in Hong Kong at Asia’s first major art auction this ... full story
Collectors’ interest in Chinese contemporary art will be gauged today, when Sotheby’s in Hong Kong auctions 155 lots of contemporary Asian art estimated at about HK$61 million ($7.9 million). Photography will be among the works for sale, ... full story
The first Al Manakh (2006) is available at the bookstore at Dubai Art Fair, featuring detailed analyses of cities like Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai and Kuwait City. Contributions from international and regional architects and planners plus contributions from ... full story
... educational arts programs including New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in Abu Dhabi and Virginia Commonwealth's School of Art in Qatar; and the Dubai Art Fair, Artist Pension Trust in Dubai, the Gulf Arab Art Fair and the Sharjah Biennial ... full story
Dubai: Shaikh Maktoum Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, on Wednesday opened Art Dubai 2009 with the unprecedented line-up of 68 galleries under the patronage of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President ... full story
The price tags on the lots may not be anything near the staggering figures quoted for recent auctions of European and Asian art organised by Christie's three-day auction of hundreds of items that belonged to the late French designer, Yves Saint Laurent ... full story
Yet Zonana was unsure whether he would return to Arteamericas for a fifth time next year: “In this moment, I want to go to fairs of contemporary art, not Latin American.” He was disappointed to find the works at this edition less contemporary and more ... full story
They have turned it into something to highlight the tensions they have encountered, as citizens and as artists, in being both British and Asian. "Western contemporary art is all about the individual, the inner self," reflects Amrit, the more talkative ... full story
Mumbai: An exhibition titled 'Mint Condition' has been organised by Chatterjee & Lal in collaboration with Kala Ghoda Café. It is a collection of lost negatives, junked prints and discarded videotapes that have been reclaimed from streets in different ... full story
With contemporary offerings in the mix, it was no surprise when Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York City, showed examples of Japanese Art Brut. The crayon on cardboard drawings were the work of Yoshimitsu Tomizuka, an intellectually disabled artist who ... full story
