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Flash Reward: Love South Korean contemporary art? Museum and gallery guide giveaway
Posted on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Win your very own copy of Museums & Galleries: Displaying Korea’s Past and Future, published by Seoul Selection in collaboration with the Korea Foundation.
Meet us at ARCOmadrid 2012! Art Radar participant in Asian Maps IX
Posted on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
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!
Indian art collective WALA wins FICA Public Art Grant 2011 with performance art
Posted on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Early in February 2012, FICA announced that New Delhi-based art collective WALA had been awarded their 2011 Public Art Grant for their performance-based project Kachra Seth’s Observatory.
London City Meet Up: Visit Yayoi Kusama retrospective with Art Radar
Posted on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
ART COMMUNITY LONDON Art Radar invites readers, students, contributors and friends to a get together in London on 16 February 2012 to view the spectacular, 14-room big Yayoi Kusama retrospective at Tate Modern. The tour will be followed by coffee, art … Continue reading
Art Radar takes a break for Lunar New Year in 2012
Posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2012
The Art Radar team will be taking a much-coveted break over the Lunar New Year, which means we will not be publishing any stories between Monday 23 to Sunday 29 January 2012.
Taipei Arts Awards 2011 win for mechanical installation artist Han-chih Liu
Posted on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
A focus on machines and narrative drive has bagged Taiwanese artist Han-chih Liu (劉瀚之) the Grand Prize in the coveted Taipei Arts Awards for 2011.
Ayyam Auctions targets young West Asian contemporary art lovers – event alert
Posted on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Preview lots for the Ayyam Auctions The Young Collectors Auction until 16 January 2012, then head to Ayyam Art Center in Dubai the next day for the auction proper.
Tibetan art installation brings homeland to exiles
Posted on Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
Tenzing Rigdol, a Tibetan contemporary artist, transported 20,000 kilograms of Tibetan soil to Dharamsala, India, for Our Land, Our People, a site-specific installation piece.
HelpersUnite connects artists and entrepreneurs with charities for joint fundraising
Posted on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
HelpersUnite is the first platform to combine fundraising for creative and business ventures with charitable giving and online event ticketing. Art Radar takes a closer look.
Chinese art market confidence remains at “all-time high” – ArtTactic November 2011 report
Posted on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
ArtTactic’s November 2011 report indicates that the outlook on the Chinese art market remains positive, despite weak sales in Sotheby’s and Christie’s 2011 autumn auctions.
Steal a Banksy and keep it, guilt and prison free
Posted on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
There is a AUD15,000 Banksy lurking in a corridor of one of three of Melbourne’s Art Series Hotels and the company is offering its guests the opportunity to swipe it.
Japanese curator Yuko Hasegawa plans multi-disciplined Sharjah Biennial 11
Posted on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
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.
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.
Habits of 7 top collectors – Wall Street Journal
Posted on Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
A recent article published in The Wall Street Journal gives us a rare peek into the minds and habits of seven top collectors and the strategies that they are employing.
Anselm Franke to curate “global systemic crisis” themed Taipei Biennial 2012
Posted on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
German curator and art writer Anselm Franke will curate a biennial that draws its thematic inspiration from “the current situation of a global systemic crisis.”
Filipino artist Rodel Tapaya named Signature Art Prize 2011 grand prize winner
Posted on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Five artists from across the Asian region have been named as winners in the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011. Filipino Rodel Tapaya took home the Grand Prize.
Palestinian artists use documentary tactics to sustain and subvert – ArtAsiaPacific
Posted on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
An article published in the Issue 74 of ArtAsiaPacific explores the adoption of documentary-based techniques by contemporary Palestinian artists.
Unravelling history in “Japanese House” – Tomoko Yoneda at ShugoArts
Posted on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Japanese-style houses built in Taiwan at the turn of the century are the subject in a new series by photographer Tomoko Yoneda, called “Japanese House”.
10 Xu Bing prints among auctionable items in Bonhams 2011 autumn sale – event alert
Posted on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Bonhams Fine Chinese Paintings and Modern Asian Art Autumn Auction features work by contemporary artist Xu Bing and living artists Zhu Ming and Liu Kuo-sun.
Art Radar Paid Internship: Application period closes 11 November 2011
Posted on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
If you are passionate about contemporary art in Asia and beyond and have the ability to work independently on a variety of tasks under tight deadlines, read on to apply.
Young Indian artists struggle under veteran legacy – The Economic Times
Posted on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
An article published on The Economic Times highlights the struggle faced by a young generation of Indian artists to break free of the legacy left by the country’s pioneers.
Want to work for Art Radar? Apply for our Paid Internship
Posted on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
If you are passionate about contemporary art in Asia and beyond and have the ability to work independently on a variety of tasks under tight deadlines, read on to apply.
Photographing art: 8 tips on how to do it right
Posted on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
We particularly like the ideas that online gallery Light Space & Time offer on their website, useful as they are for artists, collectors, gallerists and exhibition-goers alike.
3 books, 3 views on museum direction – Art Newspaper review
Posted on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Maurice Davies reviews three publications on museums for The Art Newspaper and notes three distinct views on the future use of these public institutions.
Want to work for Art Radar? Apply for our Paid Internship
Posted on Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
If you are passionate about contemporary art in Asia and beyond and have the ability to work independently on a variety of tasks under tight deadlines, read on to apply.



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