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Covid-19 Causes More Closures, and Re-Closures

Installation view of Frieze New York 2019. Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy Frieze New York.

No Go Season for Art Fairs

Installation view of *JEAN NOUVEL*'s solo exhibition “In my head, in my eye… belonging...,” at Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2020. Courtesy the artist and Power Station of Art.

Cautious Reopenings of Cultural Spaces Across East Asia

Europe Residing Japanese Artists Win Top Government Prizes

The campus of SCAD Hong Kong, located in the former North Kowloon Magistracy in Sham Shui Po. The school will be shutting down in June. Courtesy SCAD.

Students Decry SCAD's Closure in Hong Kong

TEFAF Maastricht, who closed its 2020 edition four days ahead of schedule after an exhibitor tested positive for Covid-19, maintains that there was “no risk” to fair attendees. Cou

Art Fair Claims “No Risk” to Visitors Despite Infected Gallerist

Installation view of DUMB TYPE’s TRACE / REACT II, 2020, multimedia installation, dimensions variable, at “Actions + Reflections,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2019–20. Photo

Are We at New Levels of Dumb? The Return of Dumb Type

TEFAF Maastricht Closes Early After Exhibitor Diagnosed with Covid-19

(Left) *JORDAN WOLFSON*'s work, provisionally titled The Cube (2017– ), has been purchased by Canberra's National Gallery of Australia (NGA) for nearly USD 5 million. (Right) The a

Artist Boasts NGA Commission Will Allow Simulations of Sexual Assault

*CHIKAKO YAMASHIRO* (left) and *HIKARU FUJII* (right) are winners of the second Tokyo Contemporary Art Award (TCAA). Image courtesy the artists and Tokyo Arts and Space.

Hikaru Fujii and Chikako Yamashiro Win 2020 Tokyo Contemporary Art Award

*JEFFREY SHAW* has been announced as recipient of the 2020 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art. Copy right the artist. Courtesy the arti

Jeffrey Shaw Wins 2020 Acm Siggraph Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art

*GABRIELA KRISTA “KIRI” DALENA* is again facing perjury charges following complaints filed by National Security Adviser, Hermogenes Esperon Jr. on March 4. Image via Oberhausen Sem

Philippines Revives Perjury Charges for Artist-Activist Kiri Dalena

New York-based gallerist Raquelle Azran has been barred from exhibiting at the upcoming Affordable Art Fair (AAF) in London after she claimed an Asian gallery assistant would put o

Gallery Booted From London Fair After Barring Asian Assistant

Hong Kong's night scene from Central. Photo by johnlsl. Image from Flickr.

Hong Kong Art Community Launches Online Platform Art Power HK