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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

GORDON BENNETT, Possession Island,1991, oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas,162 × 260 cm. Collection Museum of Sydney. Courtesy Milani Gallery, Brisbane. <br>

Pioneering Australian Artist Gordon Bennett Dies at 58

Commuters on Hong Kong Island's Central-Mid-Levels escalator could view the two-channel video by Hong Kong artist Wong Wai-yim, which allegedly contained explicit language. Courtes

Sex Exhibition In Hong Kong Reveals Conservative Attitudes

Installation view of *ANTONY GORMLEY*'s _Asian Fields_ (2003) at the warehouse of the former Shanghai No.10 Steelworks, Shanghai, 2003. Photo by Dai Wei. Copyright the artist. Cour

M+ Broadens Scope With New Acquisitions

ADRIAN WONG, Untitled (GRATES III/IV: Golden Electrical Company / Sheng Kung Hui Kei Yan Primary School), steel, plastic, enamel, 152 x 152 cm. Image courtesy Sovereign Art Foundat

Hong Kong Artist Adrian Wong Wins Sovereign Asian Art Prize

Anselm Franke will curate the tenth edition of the Shanghai Biennale, which will center around the theme of subjectivity.

Anselm Franke to Curate the Shanghai Biennale

Sustainability-minded architect Shigeru Ban takes this year's prestigious Pritzker Prize. Courtesy Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo.

Japanese Architect Shigeru Ban Wins Pritzker Prize

Archival photo of Chu Teh-Chun and his wife Chu Ching-Chao from the artist's 2010 exhibition at Sotheby's. Courtesy Sotheby's Hong Kong.

Chinese Modernist Painter Chu Teh-Chun dies at 93

China scholar and former director of Art Gallery of New South Wales Edmund Capon will serve as the new chair of Sydney's 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Courtesy 4A Centre fo

Edmund Capon Appointed New Chair of 4A

GABRIELLE DE VIETRI, Garden of Bad Flowers, 2014, mixed-media installation. Courtesy the artist.

BoS Severs Ties with Transfield

Design proposal for the courtyard of the Doha Fire Station, a 30-year-old facility which will be transformed into a hub for local and international artists. Courtesy the Qatar Muse

QMA Launches Artist Residency Program

Georgia's first Deputy Minister of Culture and Monument Protection, Marine Mizandari, has been dismissed on the grounds of alleged

Georgia's Minister of Culture Dismissed

Maria Muracciole will head the Beirut Art Center, Lebanon’s first major nonprofit art space, which opened in 2009. Courtesy Beirut Art Center.

Beirut Art Center Announces New Director