Topic Archives: Events

The third edition of ArtBatFest is set to run in Almaty, Kazakhstan, from 25 to 27 May 2012. The theme of this year’s festival is “2012: The Beginning of the World”.

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By centralising its ASIA ONE section, ART HK is attempting to assert its “unique” position as the “only world class art fair to have a 50/50 balance of Asian and Western participation”.

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Kate Cary Evans, Executive Editor for and Founder of Art Radar, will be participating in a Casa Asia-organised panel event at ARCOmadrid Forum for 2012. Meet the Art Radar team in Spain!

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The royal family of Qatar recently purchased Cézanne’s The Card Players for more than USD250 million, the most expensive art acquisition in history.

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VIP Art Fair returns in 2012 for its second installment. Although many galleries failed to sell works, participants applauded the tweaks to the website interface and the fair’s publicity potential.

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“Ai Weiwei absent” wrapped up at TFAM on 29 January 2012 after a three-month-long run. Art Radar takes a look at its reception and the political questions surrounding the show.

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The last half of a two part series on Indonesian art in Italy. We talk to Primo Marella, owner and director of the Milan-based Primo Marella Gallery about mapping Asia for European audiences.

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A round-up of the India Art Fair which ended on 29 January 2012. Art Radar finds out what the overall reception of the fair was this time around.

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As reported by the Associated Press on 1 February 2012, an Andy Warhol retrospective will tour five cities in Asia over the next three years, starting in Singapore in March 2012.

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Hong Kong artist Leung Chi Wo’s first solo exhibition in London presents the artist’s reflections on how history is represented and interpreted.

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Art Radar looks into Hong Kong Contemporary, a hotel art fair that will run concurrently with ART HK 12 in an effort to draw international collectors and visitors.

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“Bloom: Cut Paper by Bovey Lee” was on display at the International Finance Centre in Shanghai and contained a dozen of the artist’s recent works, showcasing her stunning mastery of the traditional form.

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Returning for a sixth year as part of the Art Dubai contemporary art fair, the Global Arts Forum 2012 will expand to six days and spread to two cities.

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The decision to bring contemporary Arab art to Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum also brought with it a number of curatorial challenges, among them, how to define the “Arab world”.

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From 12-15 January, the Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibtion Center hosted the second annual Art Stage Singapore, organised by Art Basel and Art Basel Miami founder Lorenzo Rudolf.

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An exhibition at the MACRO in Rome signals a significant European breakthrough for artists from the world’s largest archipelago, Indonesia.

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Art Radar is kicking off 2012 with a series of four posts that outline new trends in the Asian art world. How will dealers adapt as the world experiments with online market places?

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The first Kosmopolite Art Tour event to be held in Asia took place in Jakarta, a thriving Southeast Asian hub for graffiti art, in December 2011. Art Radar talks to co-founder Kongo.

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Eric Quah talks to Malaysian English daily New Straits Times about his 44th solo exhibition, a retrospective spanning his international art career of almost five decades. We profile the artist.

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The Miami Herald questioned six art professionals on their views on global art trends. We summarise the main points from the article and supplement them with thoughts of our own.

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MadeIn artist collective held a solo exhibition of its new works titled Action of Consciousness which explored the concept of action.

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Yang Fudong sheds some light on his unique aesthetic through on explanation of the video works now on show at Spring Workshop and Osage in Hong Kong.

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The India Art Fair, formally the India Art Summit, is launching Collectors’ Circle, an ongoing membership programme which aims to connect and educate emerging collectors.

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After the terrible disasters that befell Japan this year, Art Radar looks at the works that made The Yokohama Triennale 2011 live up to its theme ”OUR MAGIC HOUR”.

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The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced that Yuko Hasegawa will head the curatorial team for the eleventh edition of the Sharjah Biennial, to be held in March 2013.

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