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Tag Archives: art books
Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam’s first UK retrospective – picture feast
Posted on Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
The first UK retrospective of works by internationally renowned Bangladeshi photographer and social activist Shahidul Alam is on at London’s Wilmotte Gallery until December 2011.
Art Radar 3rd birthday loyal reader giveaway: Picasso photobook
Posted on Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Up for grabs by loyal Art Radar subscribers is a beautiful hardback photobook that documents a show of works by Pablo Picasso held at Ben Brown Gallery in Hong Kong.
Inadvertent publication design advice: ArtAsiaPacific art book reviews
Posted on Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
ArtAsiaPacific provides a source of design inspiration for those looking to make art books through its new “Book Blog” series, a focus on publication design and layout.
Photobook prices are soaring: Will monographs follow?
Posted on Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Are you new to collecting art? Do you have a limited budget? Perhaps you should take a look at the photobook market.
Contemporary Art in the Middle East – a first book survey
Posted on Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Between its well-designed covers, Contemporary Art in the Middle East presents a comprehensive survey of West Asian art and artists. Art Radar reviews.
Art review revamp needed? Hyperallergic questions form’s relevance
Posted on Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Does the traditional art review need to reach audiences beyond art world boundaries? Is there a place for art reviewing in mass media? Art blog Hyperallergic questions.
Get clued-up on Taiwanese art: Art Island profiles 200+ artists
Posted on Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Interested in Taiwanese art but struggle to find information? Art Island is a new publication that holds 200+ artist biographies.
MoMA Chinese contemporary art book refreshing – Taipei Times review
Posted on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
The Taipei Times reviews MoMA NY’s latest publication on Chinese Contemporary art, labelling it “serenely astute, clear-headed and sane.”
Great gifts: 7 books on Chinese contemporary art
Posted on Sunday, November 14th, 2010
The Chinese contemporary art market is booming! Sotheby’s record-breaking auctions in Hong Kong last month have proved that this is a market anyone working in or collecting Asian contemporary art can stand to know more about. To help, we’ve rounded up seven books we know will have you clued up in no time on the top artists working in China today. Fill your shelves or those of others with any of these essential books these holidays. Continue reading
New Taiwanese book focusses on personal connection with art
Posted on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
ART HISTORY BOOKS PUBLIC ART PERSONAL CONNECTION TAIWAN SCHOLARS A Taiwanese scholar has published a book focussing on the stories behind the creation of fifteen of the island’s public art installations. As reported in The China Post and on the … Continue reading
Middle East art scene today is like London in nineties – Judith Greer – international art collector
Posted on Monday, April 27th, 2009
ART COLLECTING MIDDLE EAST ART Now based in London, well-known US collector Judith Greer spent thirteen years in Japan where she discovered the work Yayoi Kusama well before the artist became well known. Greer, originally from Seattle, Washington told The Observer in 2006 … Continue reading
Top 14 books on Southeast Asian art by Adeline Ooi
Posted on Monday, April 20th, 2009
ART BOOKS INDONESIA MALAYSIA SINGAPORE PHILIPPINES THAILAND This primer reading list has been selected by Adeline Ooi of Kuala Lumpur-based Rogue Art, an art consultancy group specialising in the management of art projects, exhibitions, collections and publications. Adeline will be … Continue reading
Top 5 books on Chinese art by Chinese art specialist, Pippa Dennis
Posted on Sunday, October 12th, 2008
BOOK REVIEWS CHINESE ART Contributed by China art scene specialist Pippa Dennis, founder of Asia Art Forum. Nine Lives, The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China Karen Smith, Scalo 2008 Easy to read, insightful account tracking the careers of … Continue reading
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MoMA collects numerous drawings by Hajra Waheed
Kazakhstani art festival ArtBatFest calls for public arts submissions
ART HK repositions ASIA ONE section for 2012, now “heart” of fair
Museums in the age of the mega-collector: Can public institutions compete? – WSJ Blogs
Meet us at ARCOmadrid 2012! Art Radar participant in Asian Maps IX
Art Radar’s 16 most-searched contemporary Asian artists, July to December 2011
Migrant Ecologies: Innovative Southeast Asian science-art collaboration
Indian art collective WALA wins FICA Public Art Grant 2011 with performance art
Qatar Cézanne purchase points to building of art “museum empire”?