Most recently, Kim was the Artistic Director of the 6th Seoul International Media Art Biennale - Media City Seoul 2010. • Mami Kataoka is a curator and writer and has been the Chief Curator of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, since 2003. ...full story

The most popular areas in private sales included jewelry, old master, impressionist, and modern art, Asian art, American art, and post-war and contemporary art. Sotheby's earnings also jumped since the beginning of the year, totaling $119.6 million for ...full story

To some city officials, it's art worthy of its own exhibit. The craftiness impressed Osaka Mayor Kunio Hiramatsu, who said he suspects the mystery person is trying to convey a message. At a news conference on Tuesday he said, “I might get in trouble ...full story

The Dubai Futures exhibition sought to challenge preconceptions of cultural life in the United Arab Emirates. Photographs of Dubai by Cedric Delsaux were one of the highlights of an exhibition that took place in London this month. ...full story

IT'S the year of the hat-trick for Melbourne artist Vincent Fantauzzo, who yesterday took out Australia's most lucrative award for young artists, the Metro Gallery Art Award (below). Twenty-five of Australia's top emerging artists sipped tentatively on ...full story

In September, he will deliver the illustrious Norton Lectures at Harvard, and was the 2011 recipient of the Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy, the Japanese equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Nobel laureate Gordimer will read from her work and talk about ...full story

By Philip C. Tubeza MANILA, Philippines—Catholic bishops and lay groups denounced Saturday what they called a “sacrilegious” art exhibit at the Cultural Center of the Philippines that included a crucifix with a wooden penis attached to it. ...full story

“The contemporary market has returned,” Christie's new CEO Steven P. Murphy told Bloomberg. “It's done so for a wide range of names.” The big-ticket evening sale of contemporary art at Christie's New York in May 2011 totaled $301 million, while in 2010 ...full story

MANILA, Philippines – The work of a Filipino artist has received flak from various groups, including the Catholic Church, for the unconventional use of religious figures in his art pieces. The artist's exhibit, displayed at the Cultural Center of the ...full story

Works by Warhol accounted for more than $90 million of sales at its New York evening auctions in May. Sales of modern British art and prints grew by 257 percent and 73 percent respectively. London was Christie's biggest auction center, ...full story