SYDNEY, April 2, 2012 (AFP) - - Australia's greatest ancient Aboriginal rock art detailing kangaroos, turtles and humans on boulders in the remote Pilbara area will be studied under a US$1.1 million deal announced Monday.Ancient Aboriginal rock art to be cataloguefull story

In one of Hong Kong's prime commercial areas, art auction house Sotheby's is launching its own year-round gallery to expand sales at a time when China's appetite for art is booming. Sotheby's is investing $7.2 million to open more than 15000 square ...full story

By Tara MacIsaac NEW YORK—Asia Week auctions this March earned the 33 participating dealers record-breaking prices. Dealers reported a spike in interest and spending this year, with a total of $170 million in purchases made. “This was the busiest New ...full story

BEIRUT: Works by Lebanese modern and contemporary artists are among the highlights in Christie's Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art auction, scheduled for April 17 and 18 in Dubai. Proceeds from the second part of the sale will be ...full story

Antonia Carver, fair director, Art Dubai speaks at a press conference at the Madinat Jumeirah. (Photo by Siddharth Siva/ Courtesy of Art Dubai). By Heba Elkayal /Daily News Egypt If there's anything that could be said about Art Dubai this year is that ...full story

Does the biennial, triennial or quadrennial survey exhibition of contemporary art still make sense in the overpopulated, multi-centered 21st century cultural field? I took this question to two of New York's major periodic exhibitions: the Whitney ...full story

MELBOURNE.- The 150th birthday celebrations may be over, but the gifts keep coming for the National Gallery of Victoria, with the announcement that the NGV was Australia's most visited gallery and the 25th most visited art gallery in the world in 2011.full story

Boonchai has erected Thailand's biggest private art facility, the Museum of Contemporary Art, on Vibhavadi-Rangsit Road. We'll be calling it MoCA, just as New York has MoMA, its Museum of Modern Art, and Bangkok's newest landmark promises to meet the ...full story

The title of his latest exhibition, currently on show at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, reflects this sentiment and the message he wants to extend to all sufferers of HIV/Aids, "You are Not Alone: For the Same World We Share".full story

By Georgina Adam Art seized from the failed Korean savings bank Busan is being sold by Seoul Auction in Hong Kong on Tuesday in an $8.25m session that includes western as well as Chinese contemporary art. Busan was at the centre of a massive ...full story