VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has around 150 museums, with around 20 in Hanoi. The number of museums in the capital is increasing but few of them are attractive to visitors. The Vietnam Ethnology Museum is one of few museums in Hanoi that sells entrance ...full story

By Steven Heller Steven Heller, a former art director at The New York Times, is a co-chair of the MFA Design Department at the School of Visual Arts and a blogger and author. Even before Shepard Fairey’s Barack Obama “Hope” poster became the focus of ...full story

Their work is now in India, with help from art collector Durga Vishwanathan, showing at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi till the end of this week. Two of the artists whose work is part of the show, titled Desert Dreamings, are in Delhi to ...full story

They have turned it into something to highlight the tensions they have encountered, as citizens and as artists, in being both British and Asian. "Western contemporary art is all about the individual, the inner self," reflects Amrit, the more talkative ...full story

This blitzes the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of NSW and Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art -- all of which managed just one exhibition in the top 200 worldwide. The Louvre in Paris took the top spot as the world's most attended ...full story

Or perhaps someone in London could be persuaded to host a large-ish show of modern Middle Eastern art, which could serve as a background for the contemporary work that the Saatchi Gallery has placed on display.full story

More Photos > By HOLLAND COTTER The sweet bird of youth, alert as a robin, hungry as a gull, alights once again in Manhattan with the inauguration of “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” at the New Museum, the latest local survey of contemporary art ...full story

Such is the case with the New York artist Jonathan Horowitz in this smart, crisply edited retrospective. The works evoke the media-saturated art of the 1970s, the neo-Conceptualist consumer art of the 1980s, and the identity art of the 1990s, ...full story

A graduate of Ho Chi Minh City’s College of Theatre and Cinema, Hoc threw himself into the arts, diving into fashion design, stage managing, acting and singing before deciding his true calling was calligraphy. He had begun displaying his fir ...full story

We have several specialists in Christie's and we want them to come to India and talk about specialised subjects,' Maneka Kumari Shah, the auction house's India representative, told IANS on phone from Mumbai. The Indian art market is valued at over Rs. ...full story