CANCER was the last thing on these children's minds as they explored the Art Gallery of Ballarat on Saturday. The special day at the gallery was a treat for those suffering from cancer, and a chance to have some fun with their siblings and families. ...full story

In the same effort to preserve ca tru and bring this ancient art to the world, the Thang Long Cultural Center for ca tru is to open on March 31 in Hanoi. The new ca tru center is located inside the Museum of Vietnamese Revolution at 25 Tong Dan Street, ...full story

My relationship with this painting was so important to me, that the little framed postcard went with me everywhere I lived, including when I left Jakarta to go to school in America. It became a piece of home to me. I guess at this point you can kind of ...full story

New Delhi (PTI): Shahenshah-e-Ghazal Mehdi Hassan, facing financial constraints during his critical illness and living a secluded life at a hospital in Karachi, wishes to visit India, his country of birth and not many know that he has been offered help ...full story

"There are a lot of similarities between Jones and [latter-day Richmond art patrons] Sydney and Frances Lewis," Ravenal said. "They befriended artists, they enjoyed communicating with them, and they supported them through their purchases and in other ...full story

But Robyn Sloggett, the director of Melbourne University's Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, said that "materials like glass and metal, which change so much physically in the heat, will produce some really interesting shapes and structures ...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

Vikamshi inherits art from his father Hirachand Vikamshi, well-known sculptor. He was initiated to painting from childhood and joined JJ School of Art Mumbai to complete a diploma in sculpture. But due to accident Vikamshi was confined to a wheel chair ...full story

NAVI MUMBAI/MUMBAI: From going back to recent hits to holding theatre festivals, from doling out free tickets to business contacts to giving attractive discounts on beauty treatment and facials at top-grade salons, multiplexes are leaving no stone ...full story

Some fairs, including New York’s International Asian Art Fair, have been cancelled. JJ won’t talk. He no longer does his own press, instead handing the honours to Tim Marlow, an arts broadcaster and curator who has been a director at White Cube for ...full story