The works showcased were not for diners, but art connoisseurs who were interested in viewing food as art. This week, in a bid to increase footfalls during the rainy season, another south Mumbai gallery is looking beyond the staple offerings. ...full story

Support for Asia Society Museum provided by the Partridge Foundation, a John and Polly Guth Charitable Fund; Asia Society Friends of Asian Art; Asia Society Contemporary Art Council; Arthur Ross Foundation; Sheryl and Charles R. Kaye Endowment for ...full story

Suzuki and Choshi are studying at Okazaki University and both are from cities in Aichi prefecture, between Tokyo and Osaka. Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki also is from Aichi prefecture. Suzuki and Choshi said O Bon, too, ...full story

The first galleries of this kind opened in Hanoi and HCM City in 1994-1995. At that time, this was a new, promising market and customers were mainly foreigners because the quality of imitation paintings in Vietnam was good while the prices were ...full story

And here I am now, drinking in this stunning exhibition, Contemporary Islamic Calligraphy Art – Masters from Iran, at the NN Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, feeling what I felt that first time and what I feel every time I am exposed to such soulful beauty. ...full story

PAUL Whitaker, director of Sotheby's Institute of Art Singapore, believes Asian art in general is progressing and gaining recognition on the wider world stage. “This is particularly true of Indian, Chinese and Indonesian art,” he says in ...full story

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 (Bernama) -- The glorious art of Iranian calligraphy displayed at an art exhibition of the Holy Quran in the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) here, is bound to leave visitors spellbound. The eight-day event -- organised by the ...full story

You had a series of brutally honest reactions of Indian artists to the “Two Decades of American Art” exhibition organised by the Museum of Modern Art, New York at the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, and discussions on India's showing at major ...full story

NEW DELHI: Hauz Khas, around 11pm. Halogen streetlamps envelop everything in an uncertain yellow. Just off the main road, Daku waits in his car along with Yantra. The phone rings. Daku lazily looks at the number flashing on his screen and answers it ...full story

THE celebrated cartoonist Robert Crumb says he cancelled his headlining appearance at Sydney's Graphic festival next weekend over fears he might have been attacked or, like John Lennon, even killed. Breaking his silence over his withdrawal from the ...full story