Back in his homeland, Ai's art started to take root and he helped establish the Beijing East Village for experimental artists. He was interested in design and eventually put up the Beijing Fake Cultural Development Ltd. This was the company that got ...full story

Featured for January is Guam-based GFA member Arnold "Anoy" Figueroa, a native of Manila and a fine arts student at the University of Santo Tomas. Five of Figueroa's works, all done using water color as medium, are now on display at the consular area. ...full story

The Ho Xuan Huong lawsuit and other cases have raised questions about the qualifications and criteria of prizes for art in Vietnam after a copycat scandal rocked the National Youth Fine Arts 2011 in Hanoi. The festival's organizer eliminated Do Trung ...full story

JAKARTA: More than 30 contemporary pieces of contemporary art work are on display at Central Park shopping mall in West Jakarta until Jan. 15. Among the artists taking part in the current Jakarta Biennale, themed “Games, Leisure, and Gadget Victims”, ...full story

“But the next year I was accepted at to art school and I became less active. At the same time, the New Order government also banned Rendra from performing.” The anti-Chinese programs that saw many Sino-Indonesians murdered and raped in Jakarta during ...full story

'Game, Leisure and Gadget Victims' is the theme of a new art collection on display in Jakarta. Above, 'Total Survival' by Deni Rahman. (JG Photo/Tasa Nugraza Barley) Spectators stare at a red, circular statue standing on two stubby legs, with dozens of ...full story

Meanwhile, an installation of Ai's “Sunflower Seeds” that debuted at the Tate Modern in London last year was to open Saturday in New York at the Mary Boone Gallery. The gallery said the show, featuring millions of hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds ...full story

But her Art:1 alternative is simply a means to an end: bringing greater art awareness to Jakarta. How do those of us who are art rookies differentiate the art space from the museum? The museum has its own feel. It's full of work from really important ...full story

The Hirst show is a much publicized retrospective of that artist's candy-colored dot canvases, being shown at every one of Gagosian's 11 galleries around the world (two in London, three in New York, one each in Paris, Rome, Hong Kong, Athens, ...full story

By Tanyanika Samuels / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Artist Amy Cheng's piece, Rediscovery after the Fact, will be part of “Enter the Dragon,” an art exhibit in Riverdale that celebrates Chinese New Year. When it comes to celebrating the Chinese New Year, ...full story