Recent acquisitions also include drawings by Hajra Waheed and Imran Mudassar, two artists of South Asian origin, as well as a series of photographs by American-born John Jurayj (a first-generation Lebanese artist based in New York) and a set of paper ...full story

By a staff reporter DUBAI: Albareh Art Gallery, which is based in the Kingdom of Bahrain and in the region, arrives in Dubai with a solo exhibition of popular contemporary Algerian artist, Hamza Bounoua. The exhibition will take place at The Millennium ...full story

(courtesy photo) As Hollywood was during the Great Depression, as Bollywood is for vast masses of India's poor, the Asian Art Museum's new exhibit diverts attention from economic problems so apparent in the museum's Civic Center neighborhood. ...full story

According to sources well-versed in the art world, the writing style resembles a kind of graffiti -- considered in some circles as avant-garde art -- that was popular in the US in the 1980s. An Osaka Municipal Subway train found tagged with graffiti in ...full story

Oct 21, 2011 (Japan Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Osaka's Keihan Electric Line might not seem like the ideal gallery space, but the city's Art Area B1 is hoping to change that. "Nishino Travelers: Where is your ...full story

TEHRAN -- Iranian artworks will go on sale during Christie's Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art sales in Dubai on October 25 and 26. Iranian artworks, which comprise more than one third of the sale, will be offered at the auction to ...full story

Unsurprisingly, no Americans were hiding out at Tokyo and Kyoto-based Taka Ishii Gallery either. But that's nothing new to director Jeffrey Rosen. “We're a Japanese gallery so we're on the periphery,” he said. “It's not like there are people running to ...full story

A plan to turn one of Hanoi's most iconic landmarks, the Long Bien Bridge, into the world's longest contemporary art museum has sparked controversy in Vietnam. Just five minutes from the center of Hanoi, lines of motorbikes and bicycles cross the ...full story

James Lally, a dealer in New York specialising in Chinese art, doubts that Chinese collectors are hungry for Old Masters. “There is no evidence that the Chinese will follow the Japanese and develop a strong interest in Western art,” agrees Colin Sheaf, ...full story

(Melbourne does not have better food or coffee than Sydney.) Our friend O_ joined us to stroll over to the AGNSW where Weimar period art, The Mad Square, is in its last three weeks. Art 1, Berlin: It's worth the trouble — unlike the recent Vienna show ...full story