Does the picture say only what it is depicting or is there a narrative that runs contrary to the portrayal is what young photographers, writers and curators like him are engaged with in the field of contemporary photographic practice. Pix, a ...full story

They appear to be both ancient and modern. What were they ... Freud kept an 'audience' of some of his favourite figurines - Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Asian and African - on his desk in his consulting room, watching over him and his patients as they dug ...full story

In the summer of 1998, an acclaimed Vietnamese artist approached a vendor at the indoor marketplace in Ho Chi Minh City. Dinh Q. Le asked the woman, who worked 11-hour days, seven days a week, if she would be willing to vacate her stall for a month ...full story

DUBAI.- Following the recent announcement that Christie's will hold the first online-only sale for Middle Eastern art, complementing the existing auctions in Dubai, Christie's will, for the 16th consecutive season, offer Modern and Contemporary Arab ...full story

'Cross-Stitch" is an inter-dialogue exhibition that lets works of new-generation artists be viewed through the eyes of a more established generation of artists. It is a part of Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre's YAN (Young Artist Network) campaign ...full story

On August 13, when a painting exhibition featuring 11 Pakistani and six Indian artists opened in Ahmedabad, alocal artist told the promoter, Mumbai-based Ravindra Mardia, that it was inappropriate to showcase Pakistani painters' works considering the ...full story

Da Silva's statue is joined in Downtown Dubai - the name given to the area surrounding the Burj Khalifa and The Dubai Mall - by Al Sidra, a free-shaped bronze sculpture by the Kuwaiti sculptor Sami Mohamed Al Saleh; the Syrian artist Lutfi Romhein's ...full story

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines— The 19 masterpieces of 11 visual artists with modern minds from across Eastern Visayas were showcased in an art exhibition on Friday at the Café Lucia, Rotary Building, Tacloban City. The 4th visual art display entitled ...full story

But in Asian art we have a tradition of valuing art that is similar, that approximates art that preceded it, that looks like the older masters.” He adds: “This is true ... Reyno, who studied art in New York, London and Paris, and went to all the major ...full story

"Art experts and dealers were cautious that London's position in the art world would suffer unlike New York or China where they haven't introduced a levy on the resale of modern and contemporary art.The Artist's Resale Rights Directive came into effect ...full story