Osaka-born Tetsumi Kudo's oeuvre has been the subject of a number of major international retrospectives since his death in 1990, and these indicate the artist's increasing postwar historical significance. The current National Museum of Art, Osaka ...full story

One way they have done this is by focusing on art from specific countries. Among them is Arts Kuala Lumpur, a new fair focusing on art from Malaysia. While returning fair Art Asia has featured works from the region, Arts Kuala Lumpur is highlighting 30 ...full story

In New York's American art sales we could see new record prices for Norman Rockwell and Edward Hopper at $15m plus and $22m plus respectively, while at London's Old Master sales, although Sotheby's has the highest value sale with potentially record ...full story

Some of Zao Wou-ki's paintings that were on display at an exhibition in Kuala Lumpur last year. One of the painter's pieces, 'Abstraction', has been sold at an auction for a record-breaking price. The Chinese artist's work was sold for more than ...full story

In 2002 it was sold in New York by The Times of India Group in New Delhi for 107,550 dollars, about double the estimate. In 2009, it came back onto the market which was still strong for classic modern works, and sold for a double estimate 1.28 million ...full story

The contemporary art auctions in New York in November set a bar as high as — well, the record-breaking prices they commanded. Consider these ... “Blue-chip Chinese contemporary art is in such demand, and the prices are so high,” she said. “It's just a ...full story

... being able to distinguish easily between the good and the bad. He lived out that philosophy in a world of his own making. In Eternity Haymarket! he proffered us a glimpse of his personal paradise. John McDonald is art critic for The Sydney Morning ...full story

The mountain, used for many years as a staging base for CIA-directed Hmong guerilla fighters and American special operations and rescue helicopters, was only 125 nautical miles from Hanoi. Air America, a CIA-proprietary, provided aerial support for the ...full story

The internationally acclaimed Australian artist Martin Sharp, known for his colourful images of Luna Park, Marilyn Monroe and Tiny Tim, and has died in Sydney. Sharp was 71. His cartoons and illustrations lit up the pages of the satirical magazine Oz ...full story

That was the question that Melbourne's the National Gallery Of Victoria (NGV) asked when they threw their doors open on a month-long project that saw the art space turned into a publicly viewed, fully functioning recording studio, where a collection of ...full story