1" was also top lot at Sotheby's Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art in London and was sold for $ 1.1 million on June 11 last year. The abstract artist, who died in the year 2001, produced very few works, ensuring those rare pieces that appear at ...full story

Christie's also had a record year in luxury goods sales with Jewellery sales totalling £432 million ($678 million), a global year-on-year increase of 20% (18% in $), with growth experienced in all regions: Europe (+14%), the US (+21%) and Asia (+29 ...full story

Japanese artwork collected by an American who served as an art adviser for the General Headquarters of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers has returned to Tokyo for a limited time. “Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the ...full story

“We hope that it will show that urban art can beautify a city, give it a special feel, and that it will become a nest of urban creativity,” he says. “Dubai is ready for it and has the potential to rise to the level of other major cultural capitals ...full story

Announced on Saturday night, this gala event capped off Singapore Art Week and its highlight event, Art Stage Singapore, which profiled contemporary Australian art this year as one of the fair's “Platforms”. It was a double-whammy for Quilty. Not only ...full story

A professor of oriental painting at Sungshin University in Seoul, Lee has created an astounding collection of work that stresses the point of the individual existence of man. The specific Korean word for the exhibit ... Even in contemporary art, one ...full story

Record-breaking prices for art from China in recent years have seen a huge rise in interest in contemporary art pieces from across Asia. Singapore's inaugural Prudential Eye Awards took place earlier this month and Nigel Hurst, head of London's ...full story

Apart from the work they brought with them from previous shows, many more on display at the exhibition are new, inspired by experiences during their one-month residency programme in Bangkok. As directors of non-profit art centre Block T in Dublin ...full story

Mimesis: A man consumes his snack right in front of an art work titled “You Are What U Eat”, a critical piece on the prevailing domination of fast food. The work is displayed in the ongoing Kuta Art Chromatic exhibition.--BD/Anggara Mahendra While the ...full story

Green Art Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of British artist Ross Chisholm in Dubai, marking his first presentation in the Middle East. The exhibition opens on 23 January and will be on view until 10 March 2014. Inspired by ...full story