Sotheby's London achieved the highest price of the summer season for Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art yesterday, when a newly discovered work by Indian master Vasudeo S. Gaitonde sold for £698,500 / $1,088,403, more twice its pre-sale low ...full story

Even if you don't understand the letters, you can appreciate the beauty of Arabic calligraphy. It has been studied and developed for centuries and the dimensions of the letters are based on the golden ratio. "Calligraphy opens the door to aesthetic ...full story

... Manager; Moza Al Abbar, founder of The Ara Gallery; Ali Khadra, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Canvas Magazine; Cyril Zammit, Director of Design Days; Dr. Farhad Farjam, Founder of The Farjam Foundation; Antonia Carver, Director of Art Dubai.full story

Born in 1892 in the northern province of Ha Tinh, Chanh who died in 1984 in Hanoi has been recognized as a prominent painter of Indochinese painting. He taught at many universities, including the Hanoi Fine Arts University. During his career, Nguyen ...full story

Earlier this year, the budding designer, who completed her diploma of textile and design and development at RMIT University, was selected among thousands of young hopefuls to showcase her collection at the Melbourne Design Market in Federation Square ...full story

The artists were chosen because their work deals with certain subject matters that are outside the usual subjects one might expect from art coming from Manila. A lot of the works inhabit certain narrative spaces that are full of dark humor, irony, and ...full story

And the last time Sydney artist Hugh Ford saw Mr Dawson, he still had $10,000 worth of his paintings and prints. In an email last year, a frustrated Ford said he wanted to either pick his works up or be paid. ''To date, I have received neither, just ...full story

There was no aesthetic link, rather the thread was in the approach to art and materials. Yoshihara, the son of an Osaka industrialist, published the Gutai Manifesto in 1956, a year after the Swiss-born Stadler, also the son of an industrialist, opened ...full story

Gija artist Lena Nyadbi's Dayiwul Lirlmim (Barramundi Scales) will be seen by millions of visitors to the French capital for decades to come as a result of a decision to install a hugely enlarged version of her abstract representation of a traditional ...full story

He clearly enjoys working in Melbourne, appreciative of a local audience that appears to value street art. An appreciation that he says has propelled the city to attaining widespread recognition in international graffiti circles. "We have got to the ...full story