Designs for the HL23 tower in Chelsea. The HL23 tower, planned for a site on 23rd Street in Chelsea, is the kind of commission Neil Denari has being waiting for his entire working life. Mr. Denari, a Los Angeles architect who once ran the Southern California Institute of Architecture, has labored on the profession’s periphery [...]

In today’s sale of Japanese and Korean Art, a newly discovered wood sculpture of Dainichi Nyorai, the supreme Buddha, attributed to the sculptor Unkei achieved $14,377,000, exceeding its presale estimate of $1,500,000-2,500,000. It set new world auction records including record for Japanese art, and any Asian work of art sold in New York. This price [...]

Spanish police and the FBI have dismantled a multimillion-dollar international art forgery ring which duped hundreds of customers into buying counterfeit prints of works purporting to be by artists including Picasso, Warhol and Dali. Two Italians, one Spaniard and four Americans were charged in connection with two overlapping conspiracies believed to have netted about $5m [...]

Painting Process “The naked girl” by Zunuzin

The V&A’s survey of modern Chinese design is a thrilling panorama of visual ideas that rival the best in Europe and America. Hear the words “Made in China” and the image that springs inescapably to mind is one of brightly coloured plastic goods, piled high on the shelves at Poundstretcher. Is there a place for [...]

Are art restorers unwittingly ruining the paintings they’re trying to preserve? The inventor of a powerful new camera – capable of picking out Leonardo’s thumbprint among the brushstrokes – thinks so. Alasdair Palmer meets the man breathing new life into Old Masters.

It is hard to know if the once-distinguished International Asian Art Fair has been dealt a fatal blow or just knocked backward into starter mode, a phase it had previously managed to skip. The fair was born grand 12 years ago, and for a while grew only grander, sailing along as the flagship of Asia [...]