Coinciding with the Art HK international art fair, Christie’s May 29 evening sale of Asian Contemporary and Chinese 20th Century Art achieved a rare 100 percent of lots sold. The first ever “white glove” sale for contemporary art in Asia,View More >
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Shiseido Art Egg call for submissions
Award Murayama Goro Left: God is in the parts, 2009. Right: The interpenetration is done, the drift is done, 2009. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Photo Kioku Keizo Submissions for the fifth ‘shiseido art egg’, an annualView More >
Hariu ichiro (1925-2010)
Art and literary critic Hariu Ichiro died on May 26 in Kawasaki. The cause of death was attributed to heart failure. He was 84. Hariu’s writings during the 1950s and ’60s, focusing primarily on avant-garde art, earned him the reputationView More >
ART HK10 opens to public tomorrow
Art Fair The third edition of Hong Kong’s modern and contemporary art fair previews today with more than 150 galleries participating from 29 countries. Alongside name galleries from major cities throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and the US are many ofView More >
Venice Biennale appoints artistic director for 2011
The Venice Biennale has announced that Bice Curiger, a curator at Kunsthaus Zurich as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of Parkett magazine, will be the artistic director of 2011’s 54th Venice Biennale. A graduate of the University of Zurich, CurigerView More >
Weerasethakul wins Palme d’Or at Cannes
Award HdW-08PN5-k Thai artist/filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (born 1970 in Bangkok) became the surprise winner of the Palme d’Or at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. The winning work, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives, is a surreal tale aboutView More >
Call for Frieze Writer’s Prize 2010
Award Frieze magazine is calling for entries for the 2010 edition of its annual Frieze Writer’s Prize, established in 2006 to support emerging critics. Writers are invited to submit an unpublished review (700 words in English, translations permitted) of aView More >
Hiroshi Sugimoto tries hand at puppetry
Hiroshi Sugimoto – Installation view of “Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2008-09. Foreground: Heian period Juichimen Kannon figure (wood, c. 10-11 centuries); Background: Silver gelatin print photos from the “Seascapes” series (1980-95).View More >
Tsuzuki Kyoichi opens show in Hiroshima
Exhibition “I’m a journalist, not an artist.” Thus declares Tsuzuki Kyoichi at the entrance to his solo show opening to the public tomorrow at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. After writing and editing for magazines on a range ofView More >
Gwangju Biennale takes intimate look at lives of images
Unidentified Prisoner, Tuol Sleng Prison, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (c. 1975-79), photograph. ⓒ The Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide, Cambodia/Doug Niven (New York) As Asia gears up for its periodic convergence of large-scale international art festivals in cities across the regionView More >