He was officially inaugurated in March 2009 in Jakarta. Nengah Ariawan, chairman of the ISI student board, said the protest was only the beginning. "We will continue to stage activities against the appointment of Wayan Rai," he said. ...full story

Fernando Zobel was born in Manila in 1924, the youngest offspring of Enrique Zobel de Ayala, patron of the artist Fernando Amorsolo. Zobel made the deliberate decision to become an artist in 1942 while bedridden for about a year due to a vertebral ...full story

... it wouldn’t get pride of place in a gallery of high art, we thought. One of life’s continuing delights is to be proved wrong, as we were on the third floor of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, on our latest visit to Australia. ...full story

For many years a standard art story has ruled, of modernism's migration from Europe, through New York and thence, Americanized, out into the wider world. Alexandra Munroe, senior curator of Asian art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ...full story

How he started photographing the beauty of our old buildings, the sleekness of its new ones, the texture of Melbourne's squalid back streets and inner-suburban slums and its people. And how he plunged into the art of "contre jour" — shooting, ...full story

This month the European art market will gyrate to the rhythm of the contemporary art fairs, with the Frieze Art Fair starting 12 October in London and then the Paris FIAC on 26 October and Art Cologne on 1 November. At the same time, the auction houses ...full story

The two articles showing aerials from metropolitan Manila’s past have been quite a hit with readers. Many e-mailed to tell me how much they enjoyed the pieces and the look back in time. Typical of these e-mails is one from Pido A., who wrote that he ...full story

The artworks were acquired from AW Asia, a private organization in New York that promotes the field of Chinese contemporary art. “AW Asia is pleased to have been able to play a role in this acquisition,” says Larry Warsh, the organization’s founder, ...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

By Sarah Douglas LONDON—"Swimming against the tide is part of my personality," says the veteran contemporary Chinese-art dealer Michael Goedhuis. "I’m very contrarian." But that is only the first explanation he gives for his latest move: expanding ...full story