Thanh was born in 1940 in Hanoi. In 1946, his family evacuated to Viet Bac military base, where the Fine Art College was located. His father, To Ngoc Van, is the first rector of the college. Thanh began painting at the age of 4. ...full story

Olivia Turner has been selected as one of the finalists in Little Sydney Lives Art & About Sydney's first ever children's photography competition. WHILE some artists strive to get their work into exhibitions for years, Olivia Turner will have her first ...full story

Mumbai, Sept 22 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS) Saffronart, India's leading art auction house and Mercedes-Benz India, the global premiere automobile brand have partnered for promotion of the arts in India. Mercedes-Benz is supporting the Saffronart Autumn ...full story

Tapié proclaimed Gutai a kindred spirit to Informel, and when he came to Japan in 1957 with Informel painter Georges Mathieu, Gutai artists came to greet him at Osaka Station with flowers. Gutai's work was initially deeply experimental, ...full story

Eriko Osaka, the exhibition's director general, is also director of its main venue, the capacious Yokohama Museum of Art. Outlining some of the difficulties she and her team faced, she says, “Our press conference to announce the programme was scheduled ...full story

Ms Mikdadi outlined the new approach at a meeting at the Pavilion Downtown Dubai arts centre, where young Emirati artists who had received funding spoke of their experiences. The panel included Karima Al Shomely and Khalid Mezaina, who received grants ...full story

Artist Pham Huy Hung is fulfilling a long cherished dream of holding his second painting exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ho Chi Minh City, after a successful exhibition at the Viet Art Center in Hanoi. The present exhibition will feature 52 ...full story

LONDON.- Following the record-breaking £17 million auction of Chinese art, and the unprecedented auctions of Japanese art, held at New Bond Street in May, director of Asian Art Colin Sheaf has rapidly enhanced the Group's specialist Chinese and ...full story

Thavibu Gallery is holding the "Argentine Art in Bangkok" exhibition, which presents, for the first time in Thailand, some of the Argentine new figurative art created by different Argentine contemporary artists. The works are as selected and ...full story

For 10 years, the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, collected paintings on peace and war created by Vietnamese children. Then, American children, veterans and established poets were invited to respond to the paintings with their own ...full story