Topic Archives: Overviews

ASIAN ART WEBSITE TIP When we come across sources and sites which we find useful, we try to pass them on to you. This time we want to highlight www.artinasia.com, a well-designed eye-pleasing site providing gallery listings and directories of … Continue reading →

INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART “The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today” opened on 28 January 2010 at Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, London. It has received attention from critics interested in both the cultural implications of contemporary Indian art in British society … Continue reading →

INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART SCULPTURE Anish Kapoor’s sculpture fills London’s Royal Academy British Indian artist Anish Kapoor’s mid-career retrospective at the Royal Academy in London, England, has just wrapped up. Two years in the making, the exhibition ran from 26 September … Continue reading →

ASIAN ART MARKET TRENDS Usually, to be a part of the bubbling Asian art market scene, buyers need to associate themselves with industry leaders Christie’s and Sotheby’s for lack of other options. In South East Asia, however, there’s a new … Continue reading →

CHINESE ARTIST PROFILE Ai Wei Wei is vying with Cai Guo Qiang to become the most famous contemporary Chinese artist in the world claims Artinfo in its must-read quote-dense 4 page profile produced on the occasion of  Ai Wei Wei’s first … Continue reading →

CHINESE ART AT THE VENICE BIENNALE This post gives an overview Chinese art on exhibit at the 53rd Venice Biennale until November 2009 with a blogs-eye round-up of images and reviews. We also take a look at how Chinese art … Continue reading →

KOREAN ART If you have an interest in Korean contemporary art, be sure to make time for the latest 20 minute podcast from Arttactic, a London-based research house. In it, British collector and sports promoter David Ciclitira, together with Rodman … Continue reading →

IRANIAN CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION US New York’s Chelsea Art Museum is holding its “groundbreaking” exhibition Iran Inside Out (26 June to 5 September 2009) which features 35 artists living and working in Iran alongside 21 others living in the diaspora. We are promised a ”multifarious portrait of … Continue reading →

JAPAN ART READING What are the top sources of information about Japanese contemporary art? The Japanese art scene can seem impenetrable to non-Japanese speakers and yet, despite  this, there is a growing swell of global interest in contemporary art from Japan. There … Continue reading →

EMERGING ARTISTS CHINA BOOK REVIEW A new book called Young Chinese Artists: The Next Generation was recently sent to us for review by the editors. We were a little concerned that this might be another ostensibly objective production, the real … Continue reading →

PAKISTANI CONTEMPORARY MINIATURE ART Keep hearing about contemporary Pakistani art and want to know a bit more? Here is a great little introductory video. RTHK, a Hong Kong media organisation, has produced a brief but powerful  video which, in just 6 … Continue reading →

ARTIST RUN SPACES BEIJING CHINA Eflux writer Carol Linghua Yu has written an interesting piece on the recent sprouting of independent artist-run spaces ‘born as a response to a specific situation in China’. Obsessed with constructing physical infrastructure and state-of-the-art … Continue reading →

ART MARKET DATABASE If you are interested in how the internet is transforming the art market, you will be fascinated by this video which tells the nuts and bolts story of developing and running an auction price database. By making price and … Continue reading →

EMERGING ARTISTS ASIA Trend: Generational grouping of art The New Museum in New York chooses 8 artists from Asia and a total of 50 globally, to describe the next generation of emerging artists (born after 1976) as part of its … Continue reading →

JAPANESE ART SCENE Gallerist Atsuko Koyanagi discusses: why Japanese galleries group together in different districts how the opening of the Mori museum impacted the art scene Japanese government’s relationship with culture how Japanese and Western collectors differ the strengths and weaknesses … Continue reading →

MIDDLE EAST ART FAIR Which artists were favourites? 15 exhibitor galleries talk to Art Radar in the final day of the fair about sales, attendance and some new collector trends. Summary: Middle Eastern collectors showing first signs of interest in East Asian art … Continue reading →

 CAMBODIAN ART SHOW REVIEWS This post features introductory profiles of 5 Cambodian contemporary artists born in the 1980s in the 14 artist historic group show Forever Until Now curated by Cambodia-based Erin Gleeson.  The show which can be seen at Chancery Lane Gallery Hong … Continue reading →

CAMBODIAN CONTEMPORARY ART This post features introductory profiles of 5 Cambodian contemporary artists born in the 1960s and 1970s in the 14 artist historic group show curated by Cambodia-based curator Erin Gleeson, Forever Until Now which aims to document the development … Continue reading →

TURKISH ART MARKET INTERVIEW In the week of Sotheby’s inaugural sale of Turkish art, Art Radar gets the lowdown on the Turkish art market from Anders Petterson, Managing Director of research company ArtTactic. Sotheby’s holds its inaugural sale of Turkish contemporary art  … Continue reading →

INDONESIAN CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY This long – save it for lunch-time! -  informative reportage piece written in 2008 is about the history of Indonesian contemporary art up to and including the 2008 art boom. Michael Vatikiotis employs anecdotes, artist interviews … Continue reading →

MIDDLE EAST SOUTH ASIA ART Two influential art enterprises, Green Cardamom and Middle Eastern gallery The Third Line co-present Lines of Control, a fascinating series of exhibitions in Dubai, Karachi and London comprising both seminal and new works by 18 … Continue reading →

CHINESE ART TRENDS Australian curator and writer Melissa Chiu of the Asia Society New York discusses the newest trends from China in a video called Inside The Contemporary Art Scene. She identifies several emerging changes: young Chinese women are emerging as … Continue reading →

ART FAIRS The top ten art fairs in the world attracting the largest numbers of galleries are: 1. Art Basel, which is by far the leader with 304 exhibitors, followed by 2. Art Basel Miami (248 galleries), 3. Art Cologne … Continue reading →

AZERBAIJAN ART       After its first appearance with its own pavilion at Venice Biennale in 2007, Azerbaijan continues its efforts to build its cultural profile abroad says Nafas art magazine. In 2008 two group shows were held in Germany: … Continue reading →

ART JAPAN     Tokyo Art Beat, a rare source of information in English about what is happening on the Japanese art scene, has produced a review of art events and news in Tokyo in 2008. Here is a summary of some of … Continue reading →