By James Pomfret HONG KONG, May 27 (Reuters Life!) - Top-notch imperial Chinese ceramics and artworks were briskly hammered off at Christie's Hong Kong Spring sales, a sign the auction house and dealers said boded well for the fragile Asian art market. ... full story
HITS ONLY TIME 7-1 (8-13) Towards rear, ridden along and switched left over 1f out, stayed on towards finish, 9th of 13, 10l behind Dubai To Barnsley (8-2) at Beverley 5f 3yo hcp (6) sft in Aug. SANDY PAR 25-1 (9-8) Held up in rear, headway 2f out, ... full story
The famous Egyptian actress Yusra was a guest at the modern Egypt art show sponsored by the Egyptian and Emirati cultural ministers, and by the Dubai Art and Cultural Association. According to the London daily Elaph, the modern Egyptian art show is ... full story
Martin Parr and Jessica Craig-Martin capture the decadence of recent times in their photographs and show impressions of the hotspots of contemporary art: from 'Art Basel' via the art fairs of Miami and Dubai all the way to the London 'Frieze'. ... full story
By Ashfaq Ahmed, Chief Reporter Dubai: Pakistan's ambassador to the UAE has formed a Cultural Council that aims to promote art, culture and literature in the country. "I recently formed a committee comprising of some Pakistani literary figures in the ... full story
Maysam Ghaffari, 30, for instance, came to the school to study architecture after seven years in Dubai. The native Iranian said that when he was in Dubai, anyone with an architecture degree could build a building. "Most projects in Dubai have stopped ... full story
The star lot in the contemporary-art category is Liu Ye's 2005 oil-on-canvas “Boogie Woogie, Little Girl in New York,” which is expected to sell for up to HK$6 million. Christie's and rival Sotheby's hold biannual sales in the city and the results ... full story
Today is the second of Christie's four-day auction of 1600 paintings, gems and antiques that the London-based company expects to sell for HK$750 million. Yesterday's evening sale of Asian art nearly doubled its presale estimates, led also by known ... full story
Fast takes The program Edge of the World features a series of "speed plays" - ranging from a few seconds to five minutes - using poetry, comedy, and movement to examine Asian American experience. The show goes on at the Asian Arts Initiative, ... full story
The work of Jaideep Mehrotra on display in the Art Select exhbition. Pawan Singh / The National Unusual is the exhibition that gathers together disparate works from artists at varying stages of development, but that's what First Impressions always set ... full story
