Lisa Movius

Artist Gao Zhen, detained in China since August 2024, is in deteriorating health, supporters warn

The 69-year-old artist, known for satiric works made in collaboration with his brother, has been charged with “slandering China’s heroes and martyrs”

From silk murals to jade inlays: Forbidden City’s Qianlong Garden reopens after 25-year conservation project

Four structures within the 18th-century complex have been restored as part of a partnership with the World Monuments Fund

Beijing exhibition exploring Xinjiang heritage accused of ‘slipping into cultural appropriation and misrepresentation’

An anonymous collective claims a show held at Maca Art Center, featuring work of the Beijing-based artist Dan Er, conflated the cultures of Xinjiang’s 47 ethnic groups and contained inaccurate generalisations

Christie's Hong Kong autumn sale drops 46% from last year but makes Picasso's record in Asia

Sotheby's and Phillips's Hong Kong sales were also down from their 2024 equivalents

Shanghai residency space merging art and fashion to launch in November

The first resident at Cheruby House—which will also be an exhibition venue—is the Mexican artist and designer Bárbara Sánchez-Kane

Art SG to organise fellow Singapore fair S.E.A. Focus from 2026

The decision has been made in order to “enhance S.E.A.. Focus’s prominence and strengthen its value propositions”, according to its founder

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Despite new autumn slot, Tokyo Gendai remains a largely local affair

Galleries reported satisfactory sales amid a global slump, noting that the relatively low prices and high volume of Japan's market are serving its domestic scene well

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Despite external chaos, Frieze Seoul soldiers on

The fair's fourth edition sees its increasingly regional collecting base more subdued—but decent top-end sales and strong institutional presence maintain its position as one of Asia's leading market moments

Curators tease next year’s Seoul queer art show during Frieze week

Performances are taking place across the city, ahead of the exhibition to be organised by the Sunpride Foundation at Art Sonje Center

‘I feel a renewed passion to shape a new era’: Youn Bummo takes the reins as president of the Gwangju Biennale

The former director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art helped to found the biennial 30 years ago

Frieze Seoul’s fourth edition takes on tariffs and a tough market

After a politically and economically tumultuous year for South Korea dealers and organisers remain optimistic as the country’s premier art fair opens this week

Seoul Mediacity Biennale searches for the mystical in contemporary art

"Practices we now call art originated within ceremonial contexts," say the curators of the event which opened this week

‘We’ve faced immense new pressures’: Shanghai museum director on the challenges—and benefits—of going free entry

Rockbund Art Museum faced complaints after first making the change, but its director says audiences have since been “transformed”

National Museum of Korea names new director as part of post-election reshuffle

President Lee Jae Myung’s victory in June has been followed by homecomings for two high-profile arts figures in the country, while the Busan Biennale has also announced its curators for 2026

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Exhibition in Abu Dhabi marks collaboration between Korean and Emirati institutions

An exhibition of Korean art this summer at Manarat Al Saadiyat will be followed by a show of Emirati art in Seoul this winter

Newly opened Photography Museum of Seoul plans to become a ‘cultural anchor’ for the region

The new space in Dobong-gu district has been billed as country's first public museum dedicated to photography

Amid tariff and economic struggles, the newly rebranded Beijing Art Season persevered

The event comprised of Beijing Gallery Weekend and two fairs, Beijing Dangdai and the newly renamed Art021 Beijing

Chinese museum visitors accuse artist Heman Chong of ‘cyber harassment’

Visitors to Chong's recent show at UCCA Dune in China have accused the artist of “misogyny” after he allegedly reposted images of them to his Instagram account without consent

Korean artists are taking the world by storm—but why does their work resonate so widely?

From London to New York, the Middle East to Singapore, Korea’s contemporary artists have become a mainstay of global museum programmes

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Japan’s art islands gain a new attraction with museum designed by Tadao Ando

Naoshima New Museum of Art, showing work by contemporary Asian artists, opens on 31 May

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How Myanmar's art community rallied after a deadly earthquake

Galleries, curators and artists are raising funds to support humanitarian efforts in the embattled country, following a natural disaster which claimed more than 3,600 lives

Taiwan's newest art institution taps into a flourishing local scene

The New Taipei City Art Museum, which opens to the public on 25 April, is part of a drive to distinguish the municipality from the neighbouring capital

Guy Ullens, collector and patron of Chinese contemporary art, has died, aged 90

The Belgian businessman co-founded Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 2007 with his wife Myriam Ullens

Nova Contemporary gallery taps into Thailand’s burgeoning market

The Bangkok space opens new premises this month, ahead of major new private museum Dib Bangkok

Seoul museums shut their doors as court removes President Yoon

Downtown commercial galleries were also among those to make the decision as police prepared for potential political violence

‘Where are the artists with disabilities?’: the organisations opening up Asia’s art world

Hong Kong’s No Limits festival gives prominent spaces across the city to artists with disabilities, while Singapore’s Art:Dis pairs students with high-profile mentors

Myanmar heritage sites severely damaged by deadly earthquake

World Monuments Fund is investigating the extent of the damage to religious and cultural buildings after the earthquake struck the Southeast Asian country last week, killing at least 1,700 people—with neighbouring Thailand also affected

Must-see shows during Art Basel Hong Kong

Filmmaker Wong Kar Wai inspires an outdoor installation, Louise Bourgeois brings rarely-seen sculptures and eight artists from across the region are spotlit

No longer eclipsed by their counterparts on the mainland, Hong Kong’s artists are finally on the rise

The city’s creatives are gaining wider recognition amid pressure from the National Security Law and Covid

Energy returns to a changed Art Basel Hong Kong

While there were fewer US collectors, and Chinese spending remains lower, the increased Southeast Asian presence and an "exponential growth" of Gen Z buyers is notable at this year's edition of the fair