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Letter of the Editor
It is an "extra-ordinary" and unique “mogulesque” framework, that has unfurled, on a territory of approximately 97 000 km2, 70% of which is mountainous; an economy and an architectonic hierarchy of culture and contemporary art! South Korea barely...
MAT #1: Back to the Future
The Parisian auction house, Blanc-Manteaux Auction, is to host, in partnership with Futur en Seine 2016, an unprecedented exhibit-auction on digital art on 18-19 June 2016. This weekend, 90 pieces of technological art by 60 plus artists who gained prominence in the market from 1956 to 2016 will be up for bids.
El Anatsui to receive honorary doctorate from Harvard
Harvard University’s 365th Commencement for the class of 2016 was held on Thursday 26 May, where the illustrious artist El Anatsui received an honorary doctorate degree.
Travel in Style, Travel in Art
What do you do every morning in transit? Are you the kind that switches off, who tries to squeeze in a couple more minutes of beauty sleep in preparation for the day ahead? Or are you those who are completely plugged in with heads superglued to your smart phones? Have...
K Auction to offer seminal Korean Abstract artworks
South Korean leading auction house, K auction, is hosting its next installment of Hong Kong sale on Sunday, 29 May 2016 at the Hong Kong Grand Hyatt Hotel. After a week of preview at their offices in Seoul, artworks on sale are currently making their way to the Pearl...
Jarrosson presents “In Utero” at Hors Champs Gallery
In Utero, the title of an exhibition in Paris, reflects Jarrosson’s penchant for biology and for water, a key element in his works. Often compared to the work of painters from the lyrical abstraction movement, Jarrossons paintings follows a certain lyrical rhythm, a...
Platform-L Contemporary Art Centre
Seoul - a city synonymous to modern-day technological advancement is the epicentre of Asia’s booming cultural and artistic production. The latest addition, Platform-L Contemporary Art Centre (Platform-L), aims to pioneer a new dimension to the already cutting-edge and...
A Glimpse of Lucy
The Museum of Modern art in Castilla y Leon is fostering an ambitious project baptised with the name, The iris of Lucy in honour of Lucy, the ancestor of our species, the homo sapiens. But the exhibition restores what was stolen: Lucy was rebaptised by the Afar...
Master of Disguise
In recent years, the world has been focusing their lenses on China, a country under incredible transformation. Forty years after the Cultural Revolution, Chinese contemporary art thrives under the pretense of political reformation and rapid economic growth. It has no...
WOMEN: NEW PORTRAITS BY ANNIE LEIBOWITZ IN SINGAPORE
As a part of UBS’s initiative in contemporary art, the global financial services magnate commissions one of the most celebrated portrait photographers of our time in a touring exhibition. As the fourth layover of its voyage, ‘WOMEN: New Portraits’ arrives in...
The Echo of Contemporary African Art
Contemporary art is a looking glass through which we understand the world we live in. Artists provide pieces, via their artworks, to the puzzle that makes Africa.
Bonhams to offer the African Master El Anatsui at his finest
The May edition of the Africa Now auction is fast-approaching. On the 22nd of this month, the first-of-its-kind sales of the African Modern and Contemporary Art department at Bonhams will feature one of the earlier works by the Ghanaian master, El Anatsui.
Beatriz Milhazes: Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings
The Jewish Museum has commissioned Brazilian artist, Beatriz Milhazes to create new artworks fusing the walls, the floors, and the ceilings of the museum as integral component in art. The series of five hanging sculptures, named Gamboa II, decorates the lobby of the...
Bridging Africa – How 120 artists foresee the future of the Continent
“Making Africa – A Contemporary Continent of Design”, an exhibition presented at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, features a selection of 120 contemporary artists and designers sharing a common objective: to illustrate Africa’s transformation.