Architect’s rendering of the Marina Bay Sands development, which will be home to the inaugural Art Stage Singapore art fair in January 2011. Courtesy Art Stage Singapore. (Singapore) Since 2007 alone, the Asia-Pacific region has seen a flurry of activityView More >
Buenos Aires-based independent curator Victoria Noorthoorn has been appointed curator for the 2011 Lyon Biennial, it was announced June 24. Noorthorn has been active primarily in the Americas, serving as projects coordinator of the international program at the Museum ofView More >
Installation view, Kunstverein München 1999. Photo Archiv HZ, courtesy Kiesler Foundation Vienna. Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig has won the EUR 55,000 Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts 2010, it was announced on June 24. Established in 1997,View More >
Totaling GBP 153 million, Christie’s June 23 sale of Impressionist and Modern Art has broken the record for biggest art auction in London, with Picasso’s Blue Period Portrait d’Angel Fernández de Soto selling for £34.8 million. However, with Monet’s “WaterView More >
Hong Kong’s ambitious West Kowloon Cultural District project has found a director for its USD 609 million Museum Plus (M+) initiative. Lars Nittve, outgoing director of Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, will be in charge of seeing into fruition the interdisciplinary museum,View More >
Artist Yoshitaka Azuma died June 21 in Osaka due to asthma-related respiratory failure, ART iT has confirmed. Born in Osaka in 1977, Azuma earned a BA in Fine Art from Kyoto University of Art & Design and was represented byView More >
Simon Fujiwara – Installation view of Welcome to the Hotel Munber (2010). Courtesy Baloise Group, Basel. Simon Fujiwara and Claire Hooper have been announced as winners of this year’s 12th Baloise Art Prize in recognition of outstanding works in theView More >
William Kentridge. ⓒ William Kentridge, courtesy the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. On June 18, Kyoto’s Inamori Foundation announced that South African multimedia artist William Kentridge is among the three winners of this year’s 26th Kyoto Prize. Each ofView More >
Tate Modern has found a replacement for outgoing director Vicente Todolí, who leaves later this year after seven years at the iconic London museum. Chris Dercon, currently director of Munich’s Haus der Kunst, will be assuming the vacated post inView More >
In the latest sign that the art market is rescaling its pre-Lehman Brothers heights, a rare sculpture by Amedeo Modigliani has sold for 43.2 million euros in auction at Christie’s June 14 Impressionist and Modern Art sale in Paris. CarvedView More >