A visual art exhibition currently at the National Gallery Jakarta is really a protest against conventional notions of drawing. The exhibition, “Ligne à Ligne” (Line to Line), shows works, in a variety of mediums, styles and formats, by 33 young artists ...full story

PANO – The seventh Public Art Festival for armed forces, youth, and students in region 2 will take place from May 15 th to 20 th at the Army Theatre, Ho Chi Minh City, announced the General Department of Politics and the Political Department of ...full story

To listen to the art world, you would think that its players were on Prozac. They are convinced that prices, even for Zhang Xiaogang will “bounce back”. The New York Chinese contemporary art dealer, Michael Goedhuis, told me: “I have no doubt that ...full story

Mumbai: Harsh Goenka is an avid art connoisseur and an industrialist of great repute. And now he will have another feather in his hat. He is the chairperson of NGMA (National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai), an institute that opened in Delhi in 1954 and ...full story

Melbourne based auction house Mossgreen recently announced that they would be joining forces with Sydney and Melbourne based art auctioneers Deutscher and Hackett to start a new auction house called Artemis Auctions. According to the Mossgreen website ...full story

HANOI, Vietnam—Vietnam is coming to terms with its long-term, relatively accepted practice of art forgery, Time magazine reports. During the Vietnam war, the magazine reports, the Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi began to have copies made of its ...full story

After the six geographical groupings of the exhibition, Moore added a final, international collection from the modern day, including the arresting Throne of Weapons from contemporary Mozambican artist Cristovao Canhavato (Kester), a chair made from ...full story

The works of art will reflect high standards of creativity and freshness. An interesting aspect of the ISAS Art Exhibition is that all the paintings will be open for bidding and the collective amount from the winning bids will be donated to Dubai ...full story

... Fine Art and Cultural Anthropology and her art merges all these disciplines. She has been involved with over 150 international exhibitions and public commissions since 1996 including the Biennale of Sydney, the Whitney Biennial, Palais de Tokyo in ...full story

The term 'Bantamwork', which contemporary laymen referred to as 'cutt-work', 'cutt Japan' or 'hollow burnt Japan', refers to decoration that is cut into a layer of gesso and then lacquered in colours as opposed to flat lacquer or 'japanned' decoration. ...full story