Repetition and a perceived pandering to the market eventually brought down what was until last year the hottest category around: Chinese contemporary art. Some Chinese artists became almost instant millionaires thanks to work that was probably bigger ...full story

It’s not only the images of celebrities like President Ho Chi Minh and musician Trinh Cong Son that Le Nguyen Vy sets in stone, he also likes to capture famous landscapes like Ha Long Bay and Ngu Hanh Son Mountain. The process is delicate and precise ...full story

Christopher Hodges from Utopia Art Sydney, who has represented the Western Desert's famous Papunya Tula Artists since 1988, said he had never met Mr Ioannou and only knew what he had read about him in the papers. This included reports of Mr Ioannou's ...full story

KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 (Bernama) -- The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, today launched the ILHAM Art Exhibition 2009 here. The exhibition, organised jointly by Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) and the Malaysian Industrial Development ...full story

Born in China in 1953, the artist moved to Hawaii in 1981, then to New York in 1993. His work tends to be realistic in style, though having returned to Beijing recently, he also paints imaginative landscape scrolls in ink. Several fine examples of ...full story

SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Tim Johnson: Painting Ideas, on view through May 17, 2009. Tim Johnson is a fascinating Sydney painter who is making a significant contribution to Australian art. Since the late 1970s spiritual ...full story

Rinder's experience as curator has included a stint as director of the Wattis Institute at California College of the Arts and six years at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. To prepare "Galaxy," "I spent several months going through all ...full story

It’s happening at Urbanattic, CapSquare, Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday from 8.20pm. • Also in conjunction with Kuala Lumpur Design Week, Jendela KL and The Annexe Gallery is presenting The Living Room, a project that brings the domestic space into the art ...full story

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s Athr Gallery sold three quarters of the work they brought, and New York’s Goff + Rosenthal sold out completely. But the sale on everyone’s lips was Anish Kapoor’s Untitled (2007), a convex stainless-steel plate textured with ...full story

Everywhere you turn, there's a dramatic vista, or a work of art acting as a visual anchor to pull you into a new space. (The recent addition to New York's Museum of Modern Art attempts similar sightlines, Kan notes, "but does not succeed. ...full story