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This year Kiaf SEOUL opened alongside Frieze Seoul in the first week of September, marking the Korean city as one of the art world's most important places to be. Kiaf SEOUL also launched Kiaf PLUS to showcase works of various genres including NFTs. Ocula was on the ground to capture the highlights.

For the last two decades, Japanese contemporary artist Koeda Shigeaki has worked on a series of innovative flower paintings inspired by traditional Japanese artworks but using contemporary methods.

South Korea is more than just a viable option in a complicated region. Galleries are especially buoyed by the rise of a new generation of collectors.

Ishiuchi Miyako reflects on her practice, early training in textiles and its correlation with photography, and the meaning of now.

KÖNIG Galerie also opened in the city recently, while Pace Gallery expanded, boosting speculation Frieze will launch a Seoul fair next year.

Ocula's editors select their picks from OVR: Pioneers, Art Basel's online platform featuring artists who have forged new trajectories in art.

With Art021 and West Bund Art & Design taking place in November, we recommend 17 shows to see in Shanghai this winter.

The digital showcase of 20th century art takes place from 28–31 October.

Mayumi Terada fills photographic frames with a sense of absence by building environments in miniature.

Taipei-based collector Matthew Shieh selects five artworks from Taipei Connections.

Matthew Shieh introduces his family collection and its development within the context of Taiwan's arts landscape, which boasts a rich collecting culture.

The longest-running art fair in Asia returned to Taipei's World Trade Center for its 26th edition in October.

Following its rebranding with leading collector Tom Tandio at the helm, Art Jakarta is set to take place between 30 August and 1 September 2019 at the Jakarta Convention Center. Aisha Johan presents a selection of shows to see in the city during the fair.

With a host of exhibitions to choose from, this Ocula Lowdown highlights some of the best gallery and museum shows to see in New York this fall.

Art Busan 2016 conveyed a leisurely air brought on by the first warm days of spring.

Reflecting its motto, Dynamic Busan, the city is straddled by deep mountains, rivers and seas, and has been receiving increasing international attention as a tourist destination.

This is the contemporary issue. Painting and sculpture, made and unmade, and now space and place; because my work is not just an object, it is an object and space together, made and unmade.

'One thing to remember about Tansaekhwa is that it was never an official movement,' Joan Kee, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, explains in an email interview. 'There was no manifesto, no declaration—not even a series of exhibitions consciously organized under that rubric.' 

General consensus? This years edition of Art Basel in Miami Beach was better than the last. Everything was “more” – more vibrancy, daring choices, and a more buoyant market. The Public program at Collin’s Park was a complete success, featuring performance pieces by artists including Ryan McNamara, Mungo Thomson and David...

Ironically, the biggest obstacle in the promotion of Korean art is the endless insistence on putting the 'Korean' before the art

So everyone who went to the opening of the 55th Biennale of Venice knows that the art world moves at curious speeds. You see movers and shakers lost in chat and apparently blind to the works on the wall or asleep on their feet in queues for the ‘Must See Pavilion’. Well one of the slowest moving of these was for Kimsooja's...