VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has around 150 museums, with around 20 in Hanoi. The number of museums in the capital is increasing but few of them are attractive to visitors. The Vietnam Ethnology Museum is one of few museums in Hanoi that sells entrance ... full story
This blitzes the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of NSW and Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art -- all of which managed just one exhibition in the top 200 worldwide. The Louvre in Paris took the top spot as the world's most attended ... full story
“Most times, we usually work with banks to put up foreclosed properties on the block and they’re usually in the middle-low cost range,” Kok says. In the more matured property markets such as Australia or Singapore, there is no stigma to voluntarily ... full story
DUBAI - One of the best indicators of interest in art is, without doubt, the response received by auction houses dealing in it. And, the presence of London-based renowned Christie’s — Dubai being it’s first permanent address in the Middle East — only ... full story
Can the organisers of the Magic of Persia (MOP) art auction in Dubai repeat their 2007 feat in recession-hit 2009? Last time around they raised over $1 million (Dh3.67 million) from the sale of 30 art pieces. Things have changed since then. ... full story
On the first anniversary of our Dubai branch, as a DFSA registered company in the DIFC, we are pleased to be partnering with Artspace and to support this exhibition of paintings by Adel El-Siwi.’ Egyptian painter Adel El-Siwi was born in Beheira Egypt ... full story
Of all the museums in London I think the Victoria and Albert is the one where I have most often felt a spasm of political rage. On the face of it this might seem a little odd. The applied arts, after all, are not an ostentatiously ideological arena, ... full story
South Asian Post reported SFU Surrey co-hosted April 9 an annual Vaisakhi Gala Event showcasing South Asian art, entertainment and food. (Vaisakhi is an ancient festival in Punjab, marking the beginning of a new solar year and new harvest season. ... full story
About 50 sculptures created by master craftsmen between 200AD and 1850 will go on show in the new gallery to explore how the Buddha has been represented in Asian art. The gallery will also tell the story of the life of the Buddha and the spread of ... full story
Newark has built a world-class permanent collection of American art, Tibetan and Asian art, African art, and decorative arts right on the doorstep of the nation's largest museums in New York. And not by going toe-to-toe in a bidding war with those ... full story
