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Kazakhstan artist got gold medal at New York Realism contest Kazakhstan artist Beibut Assemkul was awarded with a gold medal as the author of the new trend called hyper impressionism.
06 September 2013 01:38
Renoir's personal items to be auctioned in New York A mass of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's personal items will be auctioned in New York next month in what is billed as the biggest collection of the French Impressionist artist's memorabilia.
23 August 2013 18:39
Nazarbayev and Cameron discuss incident with armless Kazakhstan artist Kazakhstan President and British Prime-Minister have discussed the incident that happened with the visa of disabled artist from Kazakhstan Karipbek Kuyukov.
03 July 2013 11:18
Granddaughter puts Picasso muse nudes on show Four decades after Pablo Picasso's death, the gates of the house she inherited, along with thousands of his art works, are always promptly opened to visitors.
26 June 2013 13:07
China artist Ai Weiwei releases 'Dumbass' Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei released a foul-mouthed heavy rock song titled "Dumbass" on Wednesday, with a video parodying his months in police detention.
22 May 2013 17:12
Modigliani lover portrait sells for £26.9 mn in London A portrait by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani of his lover Jeanne Hebuterne went under the hammer in London on Wednesday for £26.9 million ($42.3 million, 31.2 million euros).
07 February 2013 17:46
Finding buyers, Malaysian art searches for a voice After art school, Haslin Ismail was the typical struggling artist, selling just a few of his mixed-media fantasy pieces for a few hundred dollars each over the next five years.
18 December 2012 15:59
Fury over S. Korea presidential hopeful satire South Korea's ruling party has threatened to sue an artist who painted its presidential candidate giving birth to her father, former dictator Park Chung-Hee, likening the work to Nazi propaganda.
21 November 2012 17:48
Genius or clown? Paris show weighs Dali legacy Twirling his waxed moustache, Salvador Dali's larger-than-life figure was beamed into millions of homes in the 1960s, his televised antics bringing huge fame, but burning his bridges with the art world.
21 November 2012 10:24
Chinese art star Yue brings 'laughing men' to Europe The painted grins are stretched so wide they seem to hurt. And that is pretty much what Yue Minjun intended, the Chinese artist explained at the Paris opening of his first major show in Europe.
14 November 2012 14:25
Kadhafi corpse inspires artist trio The day after Moamer Kadhafi died, Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming set to work painting a wall-sized oil of his corpse -- the first in an unlikely trio of artworks inspired by the Libyan strongman's grisly demise.
19 October 2012 16:59
Pop Art genius Lichtenstein gets major US retrospective Roy Lichtenstein, the American painter whose comic book-inspired canvases gave the Pop Art movement some of its most vivid images, is getting his first major retrospective since his death 15 years ago.
11 October 2012 13:27
Ai Weiwei says China court rejects tax appeal Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said a Beijing court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the internationally acclaimed artist against a $2.4 million fine for tax evasion that he calls politically motivated.
27 September 2012 11:27
Lennon widow Ono to give peace award to Pussy Riot Yoko Ono, the artist and widow of Beatles musician and songwriter John Lennon, will bestow a peace award in the couple's name to Pussy Riot, the Russian punk rockers.
20 September 2012 13:11
Young Elvis tribute artists keep the flame burning Elvis Presley was long dead when he entered the life of Victor Trevino for ever.
17 August 2012 12:13
Stockholm photo exhibition to be held in Almaty subway as part of ArtbatFest Ekaterina Sisfontes’ (Sweden) photo exhibition called Stockholm Subway will kick off in Almaty subway on May 26.
25 May 2012 21:00
Shymkent artist won Prince Claus Award Said Atabekov, an artist from the southern city of Shymkent, won the international Prince Claus Award.
27 December 2011 12:12
PHOTO: Famous Kazakhstan painter introduced Almaty with nomads' heritage A famous Kazakhstan painter and sculptor Serzhan Bashirov offered Almaty residents to take a dip into nomad's history and heritage.
10 June 2011 13:55
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