Six of Japan's top art scholars selected pieces spanning 3, 000 years of Western art for reproduction.
Dominated by superpopular contemporary Western art, Christie's spread Tuesday represented work with the broadest international appeal.
Seven-year-old Saffronart sells Indian work online for prices Western art rarely achieves in the digital world.
Westerners have returned the favor by collecting Western art with unusual fervor.
Western art has had that effect since the 1820s, when painters were brought along on explorations to provide visual documentation for government reports.
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.
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.
Hedge fund manager Chaudhri thinks basic economics augur favorably: Compared with the amount of Western art sloshing around, India has a relatively small body of post-independence work.
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.
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.
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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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.
It might help to know that one of the most debated issues among curators of Asian and other non-Western art is how and where to exhibit modern and contemporary works.
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.
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.
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.
"As Chinese become more open to the West, the physical and cultural borders will no doubt break down and create a strong potential for the appreciation of Western art, " Mr. Ching said, adding that Sotheby's wants to help shape and be part of that growth.
Mr. Ching said Sotheby's gallery will aim to educate Chinese buyers on Western art by first introducing them to Asian artists who already enjoy an international following, like Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, as well as 19th-century French painters such as Claude Monet, whose Impressionist landscapes are immediately recognizable to collectors everywhere, Mr. Ching said.
The art of these churches encompasses elements which demonstrate the relation between Eastern and Western Christian Art.
Cyprus has inscribed on the World Heritage List ten churches which bear outstanding testimony to Byzantine civilization, are well-conserved examples of rural religious architecture and provide evidence for the links between eastern and western Christian art.
The Western Open Studio Art Trail takes place at eight venues around Peel between 9 and 12 May.
In judging the appropriate standard, however, the relevant test should not be the state of the art of Western machine tools and like technologies.
Rockstar already mastered the art of western wildlife with Red Dead Redemption, and putting a few of those critters into GTA would be just the kind of thing the state of San Andreas might need to feel alive.
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In the last year, however, signs point to increasing Western interest in contemporary Indian art.
Vendors flock to the Freeman Coliseum next door to sell their western wear, furniture, art and other goods.
That includes amassing copious amounts of premium art (both Western and Islamic) of which The Card Players will be its crowning jewel.
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The refurbished venue, which combines eastern and western architectural elements including an Art Deco facade and a Chinese-style roof, lies amid low-rise tenement buildings, vibrant markets and local shops.
Many western visitors to Japan sought its art indiscriminately, buying furiously at Nagasaki bazaars.
"If I was given the choice between a Montrachet from France or a Western Australian Chardonnay like Leeuwin Estate Art Series, there would be no contest, " he says.
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