Aug 15, 2011 (Mint - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Anew art auction house founded by Siddhartha Tagore, director of Art Konsult Gallery in New Delhi, aims to create a niche in the Indian contemporary art market through the ...full story

The inaugural series of fine arts workshops organised by the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the Emirate's dedicated Authority for culture, arts, and heritage, was attended by over 70 aspiring artists, highlighting the growing and ...full story

There will be lectures by Gigo Alampay, executive director of Center for Art, New Ventures and Sustainable Development (Canvas); and Oscar Campomanes, a professor at UST Graduate School and Ateneo de Manila University. Alampay's lecture, “How We Turn ...full story

Forty-two artists from Melbourne formed the A Passion for Paint art group with the help and inspiration of Caulfield artist John Lawry. The exhibition of the same name will be showing at Chapel off Chapel from August 9 to 28. The group's co-ordinator ...full story

The work is among contemporary art from the insurgency-plagued provinces in the far South, on show at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. PATIPAT JANTHONG The chairman of the Confederation of Teachers in the southern border provinces says successive ...full story

Mumbai, Aug 14 (PTI) For Tina Ambani, wife of industrialist Anil Ambani, what started as a personal interest in art has now turned into a full-fledged attempt to help budding artists and evoke the same interest in others. Through her ''Harmony Art ...full story

I have seen almost every major art museum in the world. I operated one of the earliest art galleries in Manila, Solidaridad, from 1967 to 1977, with the intention of giving our art a Filipino and an Asian face. I am also a novelist, and, as we all know ...full story

Rohit has been honoured with Biswanath Mukerjee Award and Swapan Biswas Award from College of Art, New Delhi in 2002. Pankaj Nigam's art is a fusion of art and poetry, emotion and expression, and freedom and conformity. One look at his art and one ...full story

TEHRAN -- The Iranian glorious Quranic art show centering on the Holy month of Ramadan opened Sunday at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center (KLCC). Rare copies of calligraphy inscription of the Quran, as well as translations of the Quran in 50 different ...full story

I bumped into John Lloyd Cruz and Shaina Magdayao at Philippine Airlines' Mabuhay lounge en route to Hong Kong. I also spotted Rico Blanco with a pretty lady companion on board the same flight. Guess HK stands for more Hugs and Kisses in the Crown ...full story