During a sale on 20 October by Christie's Dubai, a painting by an artist from the region - Fahr El-Nissa Zeid's Break of the Atom and Vegetal Life - sold for $2,741,000 (AED10,064,952). This is the second highest price ever to be made on a work by a ...full story
Osaka's National Museum of Art is to present “Your Portrait: A Testsumi Kudo Retrospective”, to run between 2 November 2013, and 19 January 2014. The show's title, “Your Portrait”, is inspired by Kudo's preferred title, with the innocent-looking phrase ...full story
Your Portrait was one of Kudo Testsumi's favorite and most frequently used titles. While the word "you" indicated the person looking at the work, and suggested that we are constrained by a variety of established values and conventions, it also referred ...full story
Born just outside the ancient capital of Kyoto in 1975 as the youngest of three children to schoolteacher parents, Mr. Nawa studied at the Kyoto City University of Art, and counts the art of Buddhism and Japan's native Shintoism as among his early ...full story
For the first six months of the year, 32 artists, curators, writers and practitioners were quietly completing the pilot programme for Campus Art Dubai (CAD), a joint initiative by Dubai Culture and Arts Authority and Art Dubai. One Saturday a month ...full story
Manila Art 2013 aims to become a contemporary art fair recognized in Asia and in the world. It features various works of art from 31 artists all around the Philippines. This feature by Pat Fernandez aired on Solar Daybreak, Ocotober 28, 2013.and more »full story
A group of boisterous drunken men twirl around as they two-step across Kyoto's Gojo-ohashi bridge on their way back from a "hanami" cherry blossom viewing party. Also dancing wildly while waving their fans are the men guiding a "mikoshi" portable ...full story
NEW DELHI: An ongoing audit of the National Gallery of Modern Art, a sprawling complex next to India Gate, has exposed several shocking lacunae in the way the country's premier museum for modern art operates. It has not acquired any new work in six ...full story
NEW DELHI: An ongoing audit of the National Gallery of Modern Art, a sprawling complex next to India Gate, has exposed several shocking lacunae in the way the country's premier museum for modern art operates. It has not acquired any new work in six ...full story
Though "paradise" is a common term, it has different definitions. In James Hilton's Lost Horizon it is a land tucked away in the Himalayas where the inhabitants never grow old. To New Yorkers caught up in two rush-hours a day it is sunny Florida. To ...full story
