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Fumio Nanjo, curatorial director of Honolulu Biennial in 2016. Photo by Makiko Nawa.Courtesy Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

Fumio Nanjo Appointed Curatorial Director For Inaugural 2016 Honolulu Biennial

Thailand's national artist Thawan Duchanee, who died on September 3, 2014, at age 74. Image from the artist's Facebook page.

Renowned Thai artist Thawan Duchanee dies at 74

Nalini Malani, the St. Moritz Art Masters Lifetime Achievement Award winner, on the Cartier gala night at Kempinski Grand Hotel des Bains, St. Moritz. Courtesy St. Moritz Art Maste

Nalini Malani wins St. Moritz Art Masters Lifetime Achievement Award

Lee Yong-woo, president of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation, who announced his resignation on August 18 after controversy surrounding art censorship. Courtesy Gwangju Biennale Found

Art Censorship Shakes Gwangju Biennale

**TONY ALBERT**, _We Can Be Heroes_, 2013–14, pigment print on paper, 124 x 115 x 2 cm. Courtesy Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney.

Tony Albert Wins Prestigious Telstra Award For Indigenous Art

Tony Albert at the ANZAC War Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney, 2013. Courtesy City of Sydney.

Sydney Artist Tony Albert Wins Basil Sellers Art Prize For His Attack On Racism In Sports

Magnus Renfrew, the newly appointed deputy chairman, Asia, and director of fine arts, Asia, for Bonhams. Courtesy Bonhams Auctioneers, London.

Magnus Renfrew Appointed Bonhams Deputy Chairman, Asia, and Director of Fine Arts, Asia

Installation view of

Japanese Conceptual Artist On Kawara: 1933–2014

Vikki McInnes (left), Geoff Newton (center) and Vasili Kaliman (right), the three organizers of Spring 1883 at Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, 2014. Photo by Warwick Baker.

Spring 1883: New Art Fair To Launch in Melbourne

Courtesy Christopher Y. Lew.

Christopher Y. Lew Appointed Associate Curator of New York’s Whitney Museum

Self portrait by Khin Maung Yin, the Burmese artist who led the county's modern art movement. Courtesy Gallery 65, Yangon.

Influential Burmese artist Khin Maung Yin Dies at 76

Amar Kanwar, an Indian artist well known for his constantly evolving work “The Sovereign Forest” (2011– ), takes home the 2014 Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change. Ph

Indian Artist Amar Kanwar Wins Creative Time’s Leonore Annenberg Prize

Melissa Chiu, incoming director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Photo by Ashley Gilbertson. Courtesy the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.

The Hirshhorn Hires Melissa Chiu as New Director

Installation view showing the Utopian Tours section of the Korea Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014. Courtesy 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale Korea Pavilion.

Korea scoops 14th Venice Architecture Biennale