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The Guggenheim Museum is presenting Marking Infinity, a major retrospective of the work of Korean artist Lee Ufan.

YASUMASA MORIMURA To My Little Sister: for Cindy Sherman 1998

Ikkan Art Gallery will open "Shoot and Point: Selected works by international photographers" on Aug 6, showcasing works by twenty-two international artists who through their experimental photography explore innovative ways of capturing and expressing images.

Kazuki Takamatsu

Art Fair Tokyo opens its doors for the 2011 fair today , after being postponed from its usual April date as a result of the earthquake/tsunami. This is the 6th year that Art Fair Tokyo has been held and it is now the largest art fair in Japan.

Life by the River, 1975

To commemorate the 100th year of the birth of Liu Kang, the Singapore Art Museum is hosting a major retrospective featuring 100 artworks, sketches, writings and artefacts.

The NY based Skate's Art Investment Review is reporting that the next art industry IPO will take place in China and will be made by Poly International Auction. Should the IPO take place , it will create the world’s second largest publicly traded art industry company after Sotheby’s.

Read the whole research note on http://skatesartinvestment.com/

Barry Flanagan, Large Left-Handed Drummer (2006)

Beyond Limits, Sotheby's annual selling exhibition of monumental sculpture, returns to the historic grounds of Chatsworth in September.

Three contemporary art venues in Bangkok will be exhibiting recent works by Pinaree Sanpitak, one of Thailand top artists, this August.

 Xiong Yu is now showing “Mirrors of the Heart” at the VA gallery in Hong Kong.

The Chinese have become the force to be reckoned with at international wine auctions in recent years and have also become big importers of hard liquor. Will they convince the world to drink their white spirit, Baijiu?.

Beijing artist Liu Bolin’s The Invisible Man, now at Eli Klein Fine Art in New York, continues his exploration of Chinese national identity and the relationship between human beings and the environment.

Wedhar Riyadi New Neighbour FromOuterspace, 2009

Hot on the heels of Espace Louis Vuitton in Paris, it's the turn of Saatchi Gallery in London to spotlight Indonesian contemporary art. This September, the gallery will present Indonesian Eye: Fantasies & Realities.

To complement its exhibition 'Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor and His Legacy," the ACM has installed several works by Justin Lee, a Singaporean artist, who has long explored the link between past and present and East & West in his works.

The theater company W!ld Rice has always tried to push the Singapore theater scene’s boundaries by mounting plays that tackle — often humorously — themes regarded as sensitive in the local context, such as homosexuality, religion and politics.  The company’s third Singapore Theatre Festival is no different, including, among other things, a no-holds-barred play on the recent national election; a play about a religious family coming to terms with the revelation that their son, now dead, was homosexual; and another dealing with the issues of religious diversity and acceptance.

Vummidi Bangaru Jewellers, Zambian Emerald Necklace

 The World Land Trust and ethical coloured gemstones mining company, Gemfields, together with Jaguar Land Rover and the Gemological Institute of America (GIA India), have collaborated with ten of India’s top jewellery designers to create a unique ‘pop up’ collection of bespoke Zambian emerald jewellery that will be auctioned by Sotheby's on October 14.

Xu Bing: The Living Word 3 will be on view from through October 2 at The Morgan Library in New York

One of China's top experimental artists Qiu Zhijie has a new exhibition, entitled Cell, at Pace Gallery, which explores the concept of cell through its works consisting of unconstrained honeycomb-like units.

F. N. Souza, Untitled, 1956. Mixed media on paper.

Saffron Art's auction which starts July 20 at 8pm (IST), will feature a selection of works on paper by leading artists such as Tyeb Mehta, V.S. Gaitonde, F.N. Souza, Nasreen Mohamedi and Jogen Chowdhury.

The Yuz Museum in Jakarta is reopening after a renovation on Jly 31 with a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Ye Yongqing’s works. The Chinese artist will also have a major show in Singapore at MOCA@Loewen in August.

Liu QingyuanDarling of the Times No. 4,

An exhibition of contemporary Chinese woodblock prints at the University of Michigan Museum of Art is showcasing the innovations, in both technique and conception, which is transforming this long estlished art form.

Song Dong Wisdom of the Penniless: Living with the Tree 2005

Song Dong is transforming UCCA into "the streets of Beijing" in a solo exhibition complete with hutongs, courtyards, wooden doors, furniture and all the trappings of our daily lives. A project six years in the making, Song Dong's Wisdom of the Penniless is a site-specific exhibition.

The Nest, Korea Japan, December 1941 Woodblock print; ink and pigments on paper Gift of John F. Carruthers

The San Antonio Museum of Art will present Paul Jacoulet: Views of Korea from August 12. Paul Jacoulet (1902-1960) was the first foreigner to master woodblock print printmaking in the Japanese tradition. The artist was born in France but spent most of his life in Japan.

The Milwaukee Art Museum has unveiled the installation Chinese Contemporary Warriors by Chinese Yue Minjun, in conjunction with its Summ of China series of exhibitions.

Classico Enamel Champlevé Dragon by Ullysse Nardin The upcoming Only Watch charity auction will be held in Monaco on Sep 23 with 40 unique timepieces coming under the hammer of  horological auction house Antiquorum. The entire proceeds of the auction will be donated to support research on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

 Chittaprosad Bhattacharya, India's foremost politically-engaged artist of the mid-20th century, is the subject of a new exhibition at Delhi Art Gallery, in New Delhi.

The 2011 winners of the prestigious Praemium Imperiale arts awards, announced today by the Japan Art Association include Sculptors Anish Kapoor, actress Judi Dench, new media artist Bill Viola and former music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa. Carrying prizes of 15 million yen (approximately $182,000) each, the awards recognize lifetime achievement in the arts in categories not covered by the Nobel Prizes.

The Delalande gallery will organize in September an exhibition inside the Louvre des Antiquaires in Paris around opium objects.

In Commemoration of the 1911 Revolution China, 1912 Collection of Mr Meng Zhao Long

An exhibition of rare stamps and philatelic materials depicting Dr Sun Yat Sen and his contributions to the 1911 Revolution is now taking place at the Singapore Philatelic Museum.

Wynn Macau has acquired a group of important Jiaqing period (1796-1821) vases at Christie's London, which will be displayed exclusively in the company's Cotai resort scheduled to open in 2015.

Korean artist Kwang-Young Chun began work on his series of Aggregations in the 1990s. Today, he is recognized internationally for these sculptural forms. The basis of his work is small, individual, triangular, Styrofoam shapes, coverered in korean mulberry paper, which binded together create a striking visual impact.

Andrea Salvetti, Mazzolinde Fiori

Sotheby's has announced the line-up for Material Worlds, its second outdoor selling exhibition at Sudeley Castle , from 28th July to 30th September 2011.

Irene Chou, one of the few female pioneers in the New Ink Painting Movement, has passed away.

Chinese artist Zhan Wang takes visitors on an exploration of humankind’s first journey as part of Louis Vuitton Voyage exhibition.

Award-winning Chinese/Australian artist Guan Wei will exhibit his newest series of paintings in a solo show Bird Island at Chan Hampe Galleries in Singapore starting Jly 6.

Oeur Sokuntevy (Tevy) is a young female painter from Cambodia who is leading the charge of the country’s emerging women’s art movement.