He adheres to European Realism, a style consisting of numerous criteria that is now regarded as mainstream in Vietnam due to the establishment of Indochina Fine Arts College in 1926 in Hanoi. And while he's obsessed by concepts of western classical art ...full story

Down at the Cannery Arts Centre in Esperance, inspired by the town's intense wind, Sydney-based artists Tessa Zettel and Karl Khoe have explored the possibilities of the thaumatrope - a Victorian era toy featuring images on a spinning piece of paper.and more »full story

Christie's sold $1.2 billion of contemporary art last year, up 27% from a year earlier. Asia flexed its expanded purchasing power in the marketplace last year thanks to an influx of new collectors from mainland China who ratcheted up prices for ...full story

London, which hosts three series of contemporary-art auctions each year, was up 20 percent to 871.6 million pounds. Growth in Hong Kong slowed to 11 percent with 519.1 million pounds of transactions. In 2010, auctions in Asia rose 114 percent.and more »full story

It will then tour to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing throughout 2013 and end in Tokyo in 2014. Further details on these locations will be confirmed in due course. "Fascinated by the glitterati, Warhol remains a complex and often misunderstood persona, ...full story

The arts and culture agenda in the region set by three major arts projects - the Sharjah Biennial in March 2013, Art Dubai in coming March and the ongoing Abu Dhabi Art Project on Saadiyat Island - reaffirms its commitment to use culture as a tool of ...full story

by Barbara Pollack The Smithsonian Institution, the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of Jewish Heritage and other cultural repositories are collecting Occupy Wall Street. That is, curators and archivists have been picking up posters, buttons, ...full story

That is what has happened at the four-day India Art Fair, an event that saw families and young children mixing with serious art collectors and buyers, and which closed Sunday night in New Delhi. ”The mood of excitement to see things and to learn is ...full story

Ask Bangalore-based artist Navin Thomas, who has explored the afterlife of electronic items in his work titled From Towns End.... On Saturday, he won the second Skoda Prize for Indian Contemporary Art during the India Art Fair, New Delhi.and more »full story

A smattering of non-Saudis were also there, including photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, Jack Persekian, the former director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, Antonia Carver, the director of Art Dubai, and the following day Chris Dercon, the director of Tate ...full story