Apart from the prize amount, the top 20 short listed artists will feature in a catalogue and the artworks of the final three artists will be exhibited in Gallery Experimenta in Kolkata and Gallery Muskara in Mumbai. Moreover, Pro Helvetia-Swiss Arts ...full story

... fourth installment of this large-scale art event, differs from its predecessors in that it is being held primarily in a venue designed for showing art — the Yokohama Museum of Art. This has allowed the curators — the director general, Eriko Osaka ...full story

The public lecture offers insight into the design and production process of the often complex and intricate work on display in his current solo exhibition titled "Synthesis" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Nawa grew up in the Kansai region and ...full story

The recent controversy in Manila over local artist Mideo Cruz's Kulo exhibition raises the question of how far an artist can go in terms of religious art in a religious country—in this case, the Philippines, which is more than 80% Roman Catholic. ...full story

In response to this, at least three Chinese financial institutions have set up hedge funds investing in Chinese art. Notably there have been a succession of Chinese clients who have been spending millions of yuan recently at New York auctions. ...full story

MANILA - It was an unprecedented moment in Philippine art history. There it was splashed on national television, a huge phallus attached to a wooden ashtray - the kind that is sold by sidewalk vendors in tourist destinations - sitting ...full story

By Philip Tubeza MANILA, Philippines—The Catholic Church on Tuesday set August 26, a Friday, as a “Day of Penance” to seek forgiveness from God for the “blasphemous” exhibit shown at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Manila Archbishop Gaudencio ...full story

MANILA, Philippines — Ten art students from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts recently participated in an art exhibition and collaboration with the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in Hanoi as part of a series of ...full story

Christie's held its first contemporary Middle Eastern sale in Dubai in 2006, and since then interest in art from the Middle East has become something of an international phenomenon. Last year, the auction house took in $29 million in its Dubai auction ...full story

He opened Satellite, which is in the Al Serkal Avenue art district, in March. The Broadcast initiative has been welcomed by Antonia Carver, the director of the annual Art Dubai fair, who says: "It's taking what's happening in Dubai to another level ...full story