Editor's note: Zeinab Al Hashemi was one of six artists-in-residence at Art Dubai 2012, a leading international art fair. The 25-year-old is inspired by the traditions of Dubai and works closely with the Emirate's craftsmen. She is also the creator of ...full story

OSAKA, Dec. 13 — A special Techno-Art event called ” Asia Student Creative Exchange” was held in the western Japanese city of Osaka on Thursday. Organized by the Osaka-based association Knowledge Capital in cooperation with Hong Kong Cyberport, ...full story

Yokoo's "Pink Girls" series, part of his solo exhibition in Osaka in 1966, was the artist's debut as a painter, and it featured immodest forms of women in shades of hot pink with big breasts, mouths agape, hairy armpits and low-angled up-skirt points ...full story

The bad boy of British art long before the YBAs (young British artists) claimed the title, Francis Bacon was known as much for his personal escapades as for his powerful, disturbing distortions of human anatomy on canvas. In Francis Bacon: Five Decades ...full story

Mumbai: Islamic art has been Mohammed Jamshed's biggest passion for over two decades. So much so that he weaves in calligraphed holy verses from Quran into his paintings. Jamshed, in his early 60s, aims to revive the sublime but lost world of Islamic ...full story

"I wore exactly what I was wearing the day I put it up," says the Footscray-based artist, who calls herself Baby Guerrilla and is renowned for eclectic paste-ups across Melbourne. The one we're here to see went up six months ago. It began as a detailed ...full story

After that “action” in Indonesia, where the roads in Yogyakarta and Jakarta were very rough, his recovery took several weeks. He still bears the scars. Iwan has encased himself in plastic wrap, with only some nostril holes for breathing. He has dressed ...full story

An Austrian museum says a man took the concept of life imitating art to an extreme when he suddenly stripped at an exhibition of pictures and sculptures portraying nude men through the ages. Vienna's Leopold Museum says that after taking his clothes ...full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Christie's is an auction house that is known for its handling of highly valued cultural items. Among them are artistic pieces from the Asian region, which an article posted by CNN claims have been, traditionally ...full story

Culled from the art collection of British Council, the exhibition 'Homelands' which will travel to New Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Mumbai from January is a unique take on contemporary British art by Indian curator Latika Gupta. Including more than 80 ...full story