He previously worked in art galleries and museums in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He holds an MA and PhD from the University of Sydney and has taught at the Universities of New South Wales, Waikato and Western Sydney. He was President of ...full story

And there were visual pieces, photographic pieces, paintings, performance art. So it was a variety of different mediums that these folks put together in their home countries and then sent to Bangkok for this exhibition. COCHRANE: So tell us a bit more ...full story

This month crowds of Iranians have been overwhelmed by the small city of Dubai. But interestingly, the Iranian New Year festival happened to be at the time of Art Dubai, one of the biggest art exhibitions in the Middle East. Iranians, who can't mainly ...full story

Sotheby's was the first international auction house in Asia, and, in apparent recognition of this fact, in the upcoming spring auction of modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art, over one third are by Indonesian artists. The inclusion of four ...full story

“Nobody used them anymore, so we created artwork for the first exhibition.” A second recycled art show was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in December, after which the organisers were invited to bring the idea to Myanmar. “The theme of this ...full story

I also opened an art gallery in Osaka that I painted all red called the Red Museum. When I wear red, I don't feel like I'm getting older. Do you ever not wear red? Only if I'm going to a funeral. Why are you in New York? I'm doing an art project where ...full story

Floating over a staircase that links the drawing room and kitchen to the bedroom upstairs is a two-feet sculpture of a baby by Canadian artist Max Streicher. Sudarshan Shetty's stone installation sits at the entrance while Mariam Suhel's gas cylinders ...full story

AS art gets stronger, contributing to economic and cultural development across the world, Africa has presented its case of prospective dynamics to a global audience at the just concluded Art Dubai Fair, in United Arabs Emirate (UAE)The rare opportunity ...full story

New Delhi: An oil painting by Syed Haider Raza, “Village en Fete”, surpassed price estimates fetching $1,859,750 at Christie's Spring Asian Art Week last week that grossed $80,416,388 in the sale of South Asian and Oriental art. The landscape by Syed ...full story

The teaching of these and others sympathetic to the nihonga enterprise at the Tokyo Art Institute and the Academy helped nurture a new generation of younger artists, notably Shimomura Kanzan, Yokoyama Taikan and Hishida Shunso. The first room of the ...full story