“The sale is indicative of the market coming back,” said Peter Nagy, who runs the art gallery Nature Morte in New Delhi and Berlin. Prices for modern and contemporary Indian art began to climb rapidly in 2000, but slumped in 2008 with the onset of the ...full story

Would that all contemporary art events could attract this volume of foot traffic. The demographics are excellent as well – seldom have I seen such a democratising exhibition with young and old, the well-heeled and (occasionally) the down-at-heel ...full story

DUBAI: Christie's auction house has announced that the totals for its most recent sale of Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art was “well above the high estimate.” In a two-part auction held Tuesday and Wednesday evening, 103 works from ...full story

The first phase, to be launched next year, involves constructing exhibition halls measuring 30,000 sq. ft where temporary exhibitions will go on show drawn from private collections. Dubai citizens and residents, rather than the local government, will ...full story

... Art for Dubai's 'Marvel City' Theme Park. Posted on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 by Germain Lussier. Marvel City 1. Are you scratching your head looking for an exotic, geek-oriented destination vacation? Dubai could be a strong option in the next few ...full story

“There are now more than 50 galleries in Dubai; exhibitions on a weekly basis; international art fairs in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and elsewhere in the region; museums coming into play and increasing amounts of education courses, seminars and panel discussions.Dubai art auction offers collefull story

Binay represented President Benigno S. Aquino III at the event, dubbed “Philippines: Archipel des Echanges” (Philippines: Archipelago of Exchanges), which also features more than 300 works of art focusing on pre-colonial Philippines and with the theme, ...full story

NEW DELHI — A kilometre-long stretch of the ancient village of Lado Sarai, abutting the historic Qutb Minar archeological complex, bursts into rainbow colours every three months when at least eight of the 20-odd boutique art houses open their new ...full story

Chinese auction houses have also stepped up the battle for the Asian art market by expanding out of the mainland. Beijing Poly International and China Guardian, the country's ... ARTIST: New York-bred graffiti-turned-gallery painter, Jean-Michel ...full story

If you really want to see the art, you'd better go after the opening," she says. However, when the British-born writer-curator first came to Beijing from Hong Kong where she worked in 1992, things were different. It was very quiet in terms of culture ...full story