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On May 29, actor Dennis Hopper died at the age of 74 due to complications from prostate cancer. Although he is best known for his role in Hollywood films alongside leading men from James Dean to Jack Nicholson and KeanuView More >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

On May 12 France’s national museum of modern art, the Pompidou Center, inaugurated its satellite space in the northeastern city of Metz, capital of the Lorraine region. Pompidou Center Metz has already gained worldwide distinction for the design of itsView More >

Not one but two Japanese curators will be on the scene for this year’s triumvirate of large-scale international art festivals in Korea. Independent curator and art critic Takashi Azumaya is directing the 2010 Busan Biennale, while independent curator Fumihiko SumitomoView More >

Kader Attia – Untitled (Ghardaïa) (2009), 
cooked couscous, 
edition of 3 + 1 AP. Courtesy Tate Modern, London. In anticipation of its 10th anniversary later this year, London’s Tate Modern has announced a list of new acquisitions since 2009 thatView More >

British-Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara is the winner of the 2010 Cartier Award, it has been announced. Organized in conjunction with the annual Frieze Art Fair, London, the competitive award recognizes emerging artists living outside the UK, providing the winner 10,000View More >