TEHRAN -- Artworks created by nineteen Iranian artists will go on display at the Art Expo Malaysia 2011, which will be held from October 31 to November 1. The Iranian-based Art and Identity Gallery in Kuala Lumpur and Shiraz Art gallery will present ...full story
Veronica Kusumaryati, who was selected for Kelola's international residency program at The Asian Cultural Council in 2009 and studied at the Jakarta Arts Institute, won a scholarship for a master's program at Harvard University. ...full story
YBCA's director of visual arts, Betti-Sue Hertz, spent 2 1/2 weeks in India last fall, visiting artists, gallerists, art historians and curators in New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. Dazzled by the contemporary art scene there and in the Indian diaspora, ...full story
"The two worlds in which these maharajas lived," Adamjee said, "are not that different from modern life in South Asia today, where the traditional and contemporary are constantly and seamlessly woven together." Raised in post-colonial Pakistan, ...full story
DUBAI // Acclaimed street artist Mr Brainwash is to start selling his work in Dubai - despite fears his creations are part of a hoax. Speculation exists that he is not an artist but an actor working for the street artist Banksy as part of a social ...full story
''Blatant plagiarism of the original image by Melbourne artist Dennis Ropar, who claims it's original work,'' Ms Pryles wrote underneath Ropar's art work. However Partridge, who owns photography business 666photography in Austin, Texas, declined to say ...full story
Vietnam – Korea Culture Days 2011 opened in My Tho City of Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang on October 14 with participation of Oh Jae Hack, Korean Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City. Attending the opening also were representatives from Culture ...full story
It was just something that I loved to do, but when friends saw my work they suggested that I exhibit my art," she said. Her first exhibition was held in Johannesburg and she has displayed in New Delhi twice. "There is a lot of potential in African art. ...full story
Now, he's about to publish himself a real wingdinger of an art book. For the past year-plus, the 26-year-old voyeur has been working as an English instructor in the small Japanese town of Tango-Hanto, Kyoto prefecture. When he's not posting up in the ...full story
It last sold at auction at Sotheby's New York in November 2007, when the art market was zooming along, for $541000. Bad taste was also evident as Marc Quinn's "Microcosmos (Siren)" sculpture from 2008 of supermodel Kate Moss in a contorted yoga pose, ...full story