Last year this time, Tagore stole the limelight at the Sotheby's Asian Art Sale. Indian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore headlined the Sotheby's South Asian Art Sale in London, not with his famous manuscripts, but with 12 paintings that fetched $2.37 ...full story
Social Confessional is the latest display at Deer Park and presents an innovative body of new work by studio artists based in the heart of Melbourne's West. Talented writer Demet Divaroren participated in the project and said the showcase looked at the ...full story
For some time now, Mumbai's art community has been buzzing with talk of this event that will finally give the city its own large-scale art festival. Maithili Parekh, Director, Sotheby's India, believes the festival, that begins today, will be a welcome ...full story
is a curator of contemporary art who has worked with major organisations in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Berlin and New York. The Keith - Haring mural in Collingwood . < i > Photo : Wayne Taylor <and more »full story
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 16 (Bernama) -- The works of five renowned Malaysian artists, including young Malaysian artist Mastura Abdul Rahman, have been selected to represent Malaysia in the 2012 Olympic Fine Arts in London. Apart from Mastura, the rest are ...full story
Olley spent much of her youth in the region before moving to Sydney. She passed away in July at the age of 88 in her Sydney home. The gallery's director, Susi Muddiman, says it will be an enormous boost for cultural tourism in the area. "It's gold. ...full story
Minister Michael PY Hsu, deputy representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines (TECO), honored the children in an awarding ceremony held at the TECO office in Makati recently.full story
AsiaNet 47324 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 16 (Bernama-AsiaNet) -- New Orleans Auction Galleries, Inc. is pleased to announce its three-day Asian Art and Antiques Sale, taking place Tuesday, December 6 through Thursday, December 8, 2011, starting at 11 am each ...full story
17 at 533 W. 19th St.; +1-212-727-2070; www.davidzwirner.com In his solo debut at Gagosian gallery in New York, photographer Andreas Gursky turns his camera on the patterns formed by the Chao Phraya River flowing through Bangkok. ...full story
"We must have gone to every museum and art space in and around Tokyo - we met everyone and saw everything," Robb laughs. "It was an incredible crash course in contemporary Japanese art. What we really noticed was this intergenerational interest in ...full story