As Macku, 47, explained during the launch of his exhibition at Wei-Ling Gallery in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, he uses two processes to create his works. One is called gellage. In traditional photography, a bright light shines through a “negative” film ...full story

The images in greatest popular demand dealt with the Kabuki theater, life in the red light district of Edo, now Tokyo, or low-brow novels, and the illustrations could easily be interpreted as a metaphorical critique of the prevalent political and ...full story

NEW DELHI: Public art may soon be more visible in the capital. Making a strong pitch for what is quite common in any global city, Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC) and the Commonwealth Games organizing committee have come together to draw a roadmap for ...full story

For UCCA artistic director Jérôme Sans, cofounder of Paris's Palais de Tokyo, the Seine-side contemporary art museum, the link between the art world and nightlife has always existed, but collaborations between the two have started picking up momentum ...full story

David Tse, creative director of Chinatown Arts Space, expressed the hope that the work will enhance the dynamism and creativity of London's Chinatown. Tsai graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design and received her masters degree from Royal ...full story

By Madhusree Chatterjee New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) Artist Hemi Bawa, who was honoured with the Padma Shri this year, feels that the award is a recognition of her art and a tribute to the artists’ fraternity in the capital where she lives. ...full story

The 14 canvases (all from 2008) and based on Mondrian's late, linear New York paintings, explore woven horizontal and vertical stripes and rectangles. Mr. Willis's "lattice" paintings, unlike Mondrian's, however, incorporate secondary and tertiary ...full story

“Most times, we usually work with banks to put up foreclosed properties on the block and they’re usually in the middle-low cost range,” Kok says. In the more matured property markets such as Australia or Singapore, there is no stigma to voluntarily ...full story

... the composition and temperature of the casting to obtain different textures and colours for each model,” he said, adding that he had included sketches of the keris in his exhibition. Metro Fine Art is in Legend Hotel, Jalan Putra, Kuala Lumpur. ...full story

Europe was a well-kept secret, New York called the shots, and art from Asia, Africa, South America and eastern Europe was just a rumour. I began the 1980s in my first teaching job, a day a week at St Martin's, among students barely younger than I was. ...full story