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Returning to Hong Kong Art Week this spring is the Asia Contemporary Art Show. Now in its 12th edition, the Show opens on March 23rd and continues until the 26th at the Conrad Hong Kong. As the longest-running and most successful hotel art fair in Asia. >> Read more

Built on the doorstep of Beijing’s historic Forbidden City, the Guardian Art Center is a new hybrid cultural institution that reconciles the city’s traditional urban fabric and thriving metropolitan energy with a diverse contemporary arts programming. >> Read more

Hong Kong—Pearl Lam Galleries is proud to present two solo exhibitions of works by Kour Pour (b.1987, England) and Su Dongping (b.1958, China) in Hong Kong. Kour Pour is known for his elaborate carpet paintings that depict familiar symbols of different cultures and universal concepts of beauty. Inspired by an early education in textiles from […] >> Read more

Marlborough is pleased to present Thunderstruck, a new series of paintings by Pamela Golden inspired by both real and imagined images of Iraq from the past and present. >> Read more

Contemporary ink art at Sotheby’s brings together artists from around the world, inspired by ink’s infinite possibilities. Today, ink is not just a medium; it encapsulates a rich aesthetic tradition of technique, innovation and discernment. The geographical boundaries and formal definitions are increasingly blurred, and this emerging category broadens the contemporary art market with outstanding works that draw on such a rich medium. >> Read more

This I was thinking at the opening of Jake & Dinos Chapman's first show at Blain Southern as the schmoozers and the boozers sashayed around the suicide vests. If this had been Afghanistan or Iraq or Sudan, you'd all be dead. >> Read more

Marlborough Galleries, founded in London in 1946, was the first modern International gallery, opening in Rome in 1962 and in New York in 1963, followed by other cities around the world, becoming the prototype for all subsequent International galleries. Ran Dian spoke with Gilbert Lloyd, son of founder Frank Lloyd and Managing Director of Marlborough from 1972 until 1991. >> Read more

The M K Lau Collection, one of Asia’s finest private collections of 20th century brush and ink paintings is proud to present Intimate Encounters: Handscrolls and Albums from the M K Lau Collection, showcasing 50 works that have rarely been presented to the public. >> Read more

Art has no equivalent of the Skyscraper Index, the notion that record-breaking towers tend to be built, hubristically, just prior to an economic crisis. The top end of the art world seems to ignore crises altogether (at least the part that doesn’t invest in tall buildings). Inflationary tendencies are observable in the art world, though, in uppity auction prices, the spread of private museums and art storage facilities and, seemingly, in art itself, no doubt partly to fill all the cavernous museums being built. >> Read more

Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy, principals of Lévy Gorvy, announced today that the gallery will expand its presence in Asia with the opening of an office in Shanghai, China, and the appointment of Danqing Li as Senior Director, Asia. >> Read more