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TEHCHING HSIEH, One Year Performance 1981-1982, document of performance. Copyright the artist. Courtesy the artist, Gilbert & Lila Silverman, and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

Tehching Hsieh to Represent Taiwan at 2017 Venice Biennale

SYED HAIDER RAZA, celebrated modern Indian painter and one of the founders of the Progressive Artists Group, died on July 23, 2016. He was 94 years old. Photo by Chetan Nikam.

Syed Haider Raza (1922–2016)

LOUISE HEARMAN, Barry, oil on masonite, 69.5 x 100 cm. Copright the artist. Photo by AGNSW, Nick Kreisler. Courtesy Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

Winner Announced for Archibald Portrait Prize 2016

Left to right: Suhanya Raffel, with artist Richard Bell and curator Russell Storer.<br>

Suhanya Raffel Leaves Art Gallery of New South Wales for M+

SAMSON YOUNG performing Nocturne, during Art Basel in Hong Kong in 2015. Young composed a musical piece with found video footage of night bombings using live foley techniques, an

Samson Young to Represent Hong Kong At 2017 Venice Biennale

MAMI KATAOKA, who was appointed artistic director of the 2018 Biennale of Sydney. Photo by Daniel Boud. Courtesy Biennale of Sydney.

Mami Kataoka Appointed Artistic Director of 21st Biennale of Sydney

Iranian filmmaker ABBAS KIAROSTAMI, who died on July 4, 2016, at the age of 76. Photo by and courtesy Laurent Thurin Nal / MK2. <br>

Abbas Kiarostami, 1940–2016

Exterior view of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Image source: wikimedia.org.

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Put Up For Sale

The late KG Subramanyan at David Hall, Fort Kochi. Courtesy Kochi Biennale Foundation.

KG Subramanyan (1924–2016)

DAEHYUNG LEE, who was appoionted curator of the Korean Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Courtesy Daehyung Lee.

Curator and artists announced for 2017 Venice Biennale’s Korean Pavilion

Traction Gains For China’s New Teaching Museum

An early portrait of the late HO FAN from the 1950s. Courtesy Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong Kong.

Ho Fan (1931–2016)

Exterior view of the Bank Union Building, Shanghai, where BANK gallery was located before it was evicted. The space officially closed on June 19, 2016. Photo by Michael Young for A

Shanghai's Bank Gallery Forced Out of Heritage Building

Jameel Prize 4