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Dozens of dazzling Oriental rugs and textiles will be the centerpiece of “Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs and Textiles from New York Collectors,”.
It’s a major New-York Historical Society exhibition examining the history of the Oriental rug in New York and … Read more »
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Cai Guo-Qiang is internationally acclaimed as an artist whose creative transgressions and cultural provocations have literally exploded the accepted parameters of art making in our time.

This weekend Asia Pacific show downtown at the Gramecy Armory opens its doors to the public. With my hands busy with business cards, magazines, my camera and several thick catalogues I hardly can do anything properly.

Liuli is the archaic Chinese word for glass. Twenty years ago, Liuligongfang’s founders, Mr Chang Yi and Mrs Loretta Hui-shan Yang had started to use liuli and perfected its craft to create art that embodied the beauty of Chinese culture and history.

Louis Vuitton is to officially announce tomorrow the upcoming Brooklyn retrospective of Takashi Murakami which will coincide with the launch of a new collaboration between Marc Jacobs and Murakami.

Last week in Hong Kong, French fashion house Chanel officially launched its latest global power project, the ambitious Mobile Art Pavillon. Commissioned by Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld, the futuristic mobile art gallery was designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid.

Paola Antonelli’s exhibitions for MoMA often feel like a science fair planted in a museum. Her current show is no is no exception, showcasing the fertile relationships between design, engineering science, sculpture, architecture, and computer programming.

Head over to New York’s Museum of Modern Art and experience the rainbow. The “Color Chart” exhibition draws together 90 of the museum’s most vibrant work by such artists as Ellsworth Kelly, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, and Jim Lambie, whose floor installation brightens the MoMA’s normally stark-white lobby.

Never mind that the world financial markets are in turmoil, or that Sotheby’s had a very rocky auction night last Wednesday. A rich artist and his developer patron proved this weekend that excess endures.