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2017 Ramsay Art Prize winner SARAH CONTOS with her work Sarah Contos Presents: The Long Kiss Goodbye (2016). Photo by Saul Steed. Courtesy the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adela

Sarah Contos Wins Australia’s Richest Prize for Young Contemporary Artists

Portrait of EMILY JACIR. Courtesy the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Emily Jacir Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for New Art Center in Bethlehem

Nadia and Rajeeb Samdani's art foundation will launch Bangladesh's first major contemporary art center in late 2018. Photo by Noor Photoface. Courtesy the Samdani Art Foundation.

Samdani Art Foundation Announces Bangladesh’s First Major Contemporary Art Center

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Container Ship Carrying Chinese Artworks to Venice Catches Fire

As scensters filed into Venice for this year's Biennale, it was announced that the first Bangkok Art Biennale will launch next year. Photo from Bangkok Art Biennale Facebook page.

First Bangkok Art Biennale to Launch in 2018

Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker was appointed director and CEO of the Biennale of Sydney. Photo by Mark Woods. Courtesy Biennale of Sydney.

Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker Named as Director and CEO of Biennale of Sydney

Tamara Winikoff in the Sydney Artspace studio of National Association for the Visual Arts One Year Studio Artist Tom Polo, 2017. Photograph by Maja Baska. Courtesy National Associa

NAVA Executive Director Tamara Winikoff Announces Resignation

LI HONGBO, winner of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize, with his artwork Desire (2014) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong. Photo by Ysabelle Cheung for ArtAsiaPacific.

Li Hongbo Wins Sovereign Asian Art Prize

DO HO SUH, installation view of the exhibition “Passage/s” at Victoria Miro, London, 2017. Copyright the artist. Photo by Thierry Bal. Courtesy the artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York

Do Ho Suh Awarded Ho-Am Prize for the Arts

Rocky Future for Michael Brand and Sydney Modern Project

Emily Cormack was appointed curator of TarraWarra Biennial 2018. Courtesy TarraWarra Museum of Art.

Emily Cormack Named Curator of TarraWarra Biennial 2018

Detail of YÜKSEL ARSLAN, Arture 407: L'Homme 48, Schizophrenes, 1989, mixed-media on paper, 35 x 75 cm, shown at Art Basel in June 2013 by Dirimart Gallery, Istanbul. Photo by HG M

Obituary: Yüksel Arslan, 1933–2017

Eran Neuman, the newly appointed director of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, has resigned after a brief tenure that began on February 19, 2017. Courtesy Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Eran Neuman resigns after weeks as Israel Museum director

Hiroshi Senju, one of the two winners of this year's Isamu Noguchi Award, will receive the prize on May 16, 2017. Courtesy the artist.

Hiroshi Senju Receives the 2017 Isamu Noguchi Award