Addressing poor VIP attendance at the 2006 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum director Hsieh Hsiao-yun announced in December that the 6th Taipei Biennial in 2008 will “compete” with eight other biennials occurring simultaneously in East Asia and Australia.

West Asian artists working in new media received a boost in recent months at the fifth installment of the traveling contemporary arts festival Meeting Points. 

One of Pakistan’s best-known painters, Ismail Gulgee, was found dead along with his wife and maid on the evening of December 19 in their Karachi home, victims of an apparent robbery. 

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The debut of the Central Asia Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale brought a rush of international attention to contemporary art from the region. 

Having addressed a fictive outer space audience for much of his career, an explosive artist comes back to earth for a landmark survey at New York’s Guggenheim Museum.

The National Art Gallery marked a turning point for Pakistani contemporary art, but political unrest compels a pioneering curator to take the show on the road.

The collective Chim↑Pom was formed in 2005 by six artists in their 20s based in Tokyo. Calling themselves “art soldiers,” these young rebels specialize in socially engaged projects with an irreverent bent.

Bangkok exhibitions are featuring more artists from abroad, as demonstrated by “Tidal,” the Thailand debut of 39-year-old Cambodian sculptor Sopheap Pich. 

Outside an imposing building near New York’s Chinatown, a key flutters to the ground from a window on the top floor, nearly hitting a luxury sedan idling curbside. David Diao, known for his minimal paintings investigating modernism’s defining themes and iconography, moved into the former textile warehouse 34 years ago.