Sounds recorded from the boat will be incorporated in an installation at the Liquid Architecture festival of sound art, in Sydney from June 24. Some of the rubbish that Shapley has turned into art has been in the river for years, despite the clean-up ...full story

... Seri Najib Tun Razak to Beijing. "What makes it special is the sharp observation of a foreign artist to transform the beauty and prosperity of Malaysia's rich culture and landscape into enthralling art pieces," he told Bernama as we walked along, ...full story

London (PTI): A 1960 painting by MF Husain fetched a whopping Rs 3.1 crore at Christie's South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art sale here which saw 76 lots of celebrated artists going under the hammer for Rs 18.98 crore. Pakistani artist Rashid Rana's ...full story

Though his unconventional streak was shown in 1963 in his decision to hitchhike from Singapore to Britain, his arrival in Sydney later that year was merely supposed to be a year's corporate posting before settling down to married life in Melbourne with ...full story

Slabs of orange Plexiglas set on a mirrored base taped off like a mosaic were used to suggest the structure of Wood/Marsh's Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. Meanwhile, a sculptural piece of wood and resin, a model for the Chichu Art ...full story

But 82-year-old Mehta himself has managed from his life's earnings a sparse middle-class apartment, one room in it converted to a studio, in Lokhandwala, Mumbai. The most highly-valued art works in India lean face-against-the-wall in his studio, ...full story

There are more than two months to go before the India Art Summit begins in Delhi, but preparations are on across the globe — in 17 galleries, from the US and Germany to Dubai, China and Japan. If in Berlin, Alexander Hahn from Aanant & Zoo gallery is ...full story

DUBAI — A Filipino visual artist, Darwin Guevarra, has an eye for beauty, even for worthless junks, which he turns into unique pieces of art. Japat, as he is known to friends and family members, says that anything he sees on the street and at any place ...full story

While New York's auction houses hosted sales of South American art, the Paris offices of Sotheby's and Christie's were selling Contemporary Art during May. The results are better than expected for Christie's primarily due to the sale of a collection of ...full story

Some time later she had the fortune to meet painter Van Den, a lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts, who encouraged Duoc to get involved in the arts. Since her graduation in 1990 she has worked as a lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City ...full story