This mighty apparition, whose legs curve up the drill like the arches in a Gothic cathedral, was one of the first robots to emerge in Western art.
In the last year, however, signs point to increasing Western interest in contemporary Indian art.
After all, Western art in many ways starts with the Greeks, who made ideal beauty, with its glimpse of divine perfection, the hallmark of their culture.
There you can see five focus shows devoted to the artists who recently received contemporary art fellowships from the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis.
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In the interest of collectors and in response to the high quotes on the art market, in particular Western market, of religious objects (paintings, sculptures, architectural elements, silver and various objects of piety), UNESCO organized a training session for legal and operational matters on the specific theme of the protection of religious heritage, which has been the target of a significant looting in recent years.
Seven-year-old Saffronart sells Indian work online for prices Western art rarely achieves in the digital world.
Africa by Africa, an exhibition of photography at the Barbican Art Gallery, leaves the visitor in little doubt of Africa's ability to assimilate supposedly western art forms.
Not so for Tesla, which despite all that bickering up top has managed to scrounge together the funds to open up a shop in Chelsea in western Manhattan, a swanky area full of art galleries and the beret-clad people who frequent them.
In the past five or six years, many galleries have migrated to open on Potsdamer Strasse in western Berlin, a street lined with antiques and art dealers before World War II.
One particularly hot corner of the market is western art, which took off around 1983, a time of great oil-derived wealth in the Western United States, and continues unabated.
At the national academies of art that began to be established throughout western Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, students were trained to scrutinize posed models through the filter of antique sculpture and such approved old masters as Raphael.
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According to a Bonhams representative, the painting will be exhibited, alongside the rest of the diamond retailer's art collection, at the Delaire Graff Estate, near Stellenbosch in the Western Cape.
Spreading the Sydney Festival throughout the city, Kaldor Public Arts Projects, an Australian arts organisation that transforms spaces with emotive art, has taken its most recent project to Parramatta Town Hall in the western suburbs.
One of the early arrivals, back in 2007, was Sundaram Tagore, a gallerist with outposts in New York and Beverly Hills who focuses on the intersection of Western and non-Western art and shows pieces that further a global dialogue.
The textile arts recovered in the second half of the 19th century, however, when Western buyers developed a love for the art.
Mr. Murphy said his salesrooms in New York and London also saw a 31% uptick in registered Asian bidders this season a sign that some Asian collectors may be migrating to Western art categories while values for Asian art recalibrate.
Both auction houses said their new Hong Kong galleries represent a key part of their plans to broaden the palate of China's art buyers, who are still more interested in Chinese paintings than they are in household Western names like Pablo Picasso.
At the newly opened, relocated Barnes in Philadelphia, one can see once again how African sculptures held pride of place with masterpieces of modern Western art.
Though he was born in Hong Kong, Brown waited to start a gallery in his hometown until he felt the market was ripe and that buyers had gained a real appreciation for western art.
In judging the appropriate standard, however, the relevant test should not be the state of the art of Western machine tools and like technologies.
With this juxtaposition of the painting and its sources in African art, viewers can judge for themselves how Johnson strove for a union of the formal concerns motivating many Western artists with his understanding of African traditions.
Before Mr Khatami's election, the government had frowned on innocent-seeming pleasures like the theatre, western music and novel-reading, fearing that such art forms would subvert the austere Islamic order established in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution 20 years ago.
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