ARTNET NEWS

More than 1,000 demonstrators marched in Hong Kong on Saturday, Apr. 23, 2011, demanding the release of imprisoned artist and activist Ai Weiwei.

Art Brussels, Apr. 28-May 1, 2011, the well-respected regional European art fair now in its 29th edition, is presenting approximately 170 dealers this year at the Brussels Expo building.

A half dozen sculptures by British artist Anthony Caro (b. 1924) make their debut on the roof sculpture garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr. 26-Oct. 30, 2011.

Kudos to architect Frank Gehryand Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight, the two brave souls willing to kick a little dirt on the shoes of the richest art patron in America, Eli Broad.

The Rema Hort Mann Foundation is launching a new program to raise funds and award $10,000 grants to emerging artists in greater Los Angeles.

Photo fans! Are you ready to head to Charlottesville, Va., for the 2011 Look3 Festival of the Photograph, June 9-11, 2011?

One of Portugal’s major contemporary art collections, banker and art collector João Oliveira-Rendeiro’s Ellipse Foundation, is showing off its holdings with “The Last First Decade,” Apr. 30-Dec. 18, 2011.

How does a curator get a job at a museum? Well, if it’s the Smithsonian Institution, you can apply.

* Some of Britain’s most highbrow fine art galleries -- including Eleven Gallery and Clarendon Fine Art -- have been sucked into the Royal Wedding vortex, and are now showcasing Miss-Middleton-et-al-themed works of art, says the Telegraph.