JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesia's minister for culture and tourism has issued a public apology over the government's support of a controversial new museum whose construction caused major damage to an important archaeological site, the Art Newspaper ...full story

A STRANGE shy man with a cultured voice but almost penniless stepped ashore in Melbourne in 1934 and unrolled some drawings tied up in a singlet. “I was absolutely staggered,” remembered the first person to view them. “I was dumbfounded at the beauty ...full story

Manila - A Filipino artist is giving his work a new flavour by using garlic instead of paint. Mark Libunao, 23, is known as the "Garlic Painter" in his farming village of Guima, north of Manila, which is located in a province that grows many of the ...full story

A new art space opens in Jakarta on Friday, April 17. It is not like any other gallery in town - being situated amid Ancol Dreamland, a center of fun, entertainment and creativity. Named North Art Space, it will be known by its acronym NAS. ...full story

More recently, he was at this year’s Art Dubai festival to promote a book called Bereft Beirut: the architecture of the forsaken and map of the derelict. It contains text by Rasha Salti and his photographs of many uncompleted construction sites in the ...full story

Catherine David, who is responsible for the Abu Dhabi–based ADACH Platform at the upcoming Venice Biennale, noted the differences during a press conference held for the Global Art Forum at Art Dubai. “Concerning this region, two dangerous fantasies ...full story

Danish ceramist Michael Geertsen will unveil on April 16 a six-kilometer-long ceramic mosaic made up of many smaller paintings by himself and Vietnamese artists in front of the Long Bien bus station in Hanoi. A part of the six-kilometer ceramic ...full story

As Getty watchers may recall, the museum exhibited the Manet, which belongs to London's Courtauld Institute of Art, in 2007. The subsequent Morimura acquisition is a coincidence, Keller says. All the Asian works will remain in storage for a while, ...full story

HANOI (AFP) — Authorities in conservative Vietnam have refused to allow an exhibition of nude paintings because they are "inappropriate" for the society, an online report said Tuesday. The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in the central city ...full story

VietNamNet Bridge – Two new galleries have opened in Hanoi, Bui Gallery and 25 Studio. They are both contemporary art galleries but they are very different from each other. Bui Gallery, inaugurated on April 7 at 23 Ngo Van So street, stated it was “a ...full story