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Local and international artists gather on Feb. 20, 2024, for the launch party of this year's Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) at 1-Altitude Coast Bar in Singapore.
Local and international artists gather on Feb. 20, 2024, for the launch party of this year's Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) at 1-Altitude Coast Bar in Singapore.`
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Cultures, nature set to meld at 2024 Singapore International Festival of Arts

The Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) is slated to return on Friday and run until June 2 at multiple theaters across the city-state.

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Louvre says Mona Lisa could get a room of her own

Such a move would give visitors, many of whom visit the Louvre for the iconic painting alone, a better experience, Laurence des Cars told the France Inter broadcaster.

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Long-lost Klimt portrait auctioned off for 30 million euros

Hong Kong gallery HomeArt snapped up the "Bildnis Fraeulein Lieser" ("Portrait of Miss Lieser"), which was commissioned by a wealthy Jewish industrialist's family and painted by the symbolist master Klimt in 1917 shortly before he died.

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Investments, inheritance leave Charles III sitting on a fortune

Queen Elizabeth II bequeathed her son an estimated £360 million ($448 million) upon her death in September last year, boosting Charles's fortune to £600 million, according to an estimate by The Times.

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Black cowgirls gallop on in face of US rodeo stereotypes

The African American cowgirl deftly zig-zags around three barrels, showing off why she is considered -- against the sport's stereotypical whiteness and masculinity -- a rising rodeo star.

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Hit Japan anime genre offers escape, second chances

"Isekai" or "alternative world" anime covers a broad range of storylines in which a character is transported into a new life.

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Face the past: Indonesia needs an exhibit commemorating the dark side of its history

The Czech Republic’s Museum of Communism prompts the question whether Indonesia could similarly acknowledge its history’s less-glorious moments

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Did the AI Drake song breach copyright?

A viral AI-generated song imitating Drake and The Weeknd was pulled from streaming services this week, but did it actually breach copyright as claimed by record label Universal?

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This artsy 'dressing room' is like no other

An art collaboration went literal in converting Bandung art space Selasar PAV for the Dressing Room exhibition

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'Living gallery': fighting to save Hong Kong's fading neon signs

Neon signs once transformed Hong Kong's oldest neighbourhoods into a kaleidoscope of luminous colour after dark, but most have now been removed.

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Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei launches new London show

China feels it has the "right to redefine the global world order", Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said ahead of his first design-focused exhibition in London.

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Is it possible to have too much Picasso?

Picasso's ceramics, Picasso's sculptures, Picasso and feminism, Picasso's use of white, celebrity photographs of Picasso... the list of exhibitions marking the half-century since his death on April 8, 1973 runs on and on.

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China's 'art factory' painters turn from fakes to originals

Home to more than 8,000 artists, southern China's Dafen has been producing near-perfect copies of timeless masterpieces for years.

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An Irish vision of contemporary arts in Indonesia

An exhibition of contemporary Irish women artists in Jakarta showcases their distinct yet universal take on the arts and today’s world, as told from Ireland’s standing as a crossroads between Europe and America.

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Vietnam artist in race to ensure 'heroic mothers' not forgotten

The 75-year-old has painted the portraits of 2,765 of the women, who are part of a group known in Vietnam as "heroic mothers", in recognition of their sacrifice during the war that ended in 1975.

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Hong Kong art market hits pre-pandemic highs despite curbs

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Artist Karla Ortiz sees AI 'identity theft', not promise

About a year ago, Ortiz discovered Disco Diffusion, an open source AI-based image generating tool, but it is not easy to use for those less tech savvy.

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Anonymous internet persona Beyond Crap takes material jabs at the *** World

The digital artist materializes its graphical commentary in Selasar Sunaryo Art Space’s latest exhibition, U R My Inspiration ☺✨: Love Letters to the *** World

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Batik Marunda: Jakarta's living heritage

Women living in Rusunawa Marunda and Rawa Bebek, North Jakarta, produce batik pieces that represent the capital. 

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Liver failure likely cause of Beethoven's death: DNA analysis

Ever since, biographers have sought to explain the causes of the German composer's death at the age of 56, his progressive hearing loss and his struggles with chronic illness.

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Once banned, now back: Iran sees timid return of neckties

Dress rules have stoked strong passions in Iran, especially restrictions on women who have long been required to wear modest clothing and headscarves.

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La Sirène: the mermaid fighting against oppression

The Erasmus Huis Jakarta presents an interdisciplinary exhibition, themed La Sirène, with a combination of folklore about mermaids from many different countries. 

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The mafias of Italy: the old guard and the upstarts

For years, the Sicilian Mafia terrorised the Italian public and state, with its highest-profile killings that of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992.

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Girl with AI earrings sparks Dutch art controversy

At first glance it seems to be just a modern take on Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece "Girl with a Pearl Earring". But look more closely and things get a little strange.

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Forgotten auteurs : Rediscovering Ratna Asmara, Indonesia’s first female director

Having directed multiple successful films alongside a rich acting, singing and traditional dance career in the 1940s through the 60s, Ratna Asmara, Indonesia’s first woman director, should be a celebrated figure. Why has her name been forgotten?

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Egypt unveils hidden corridor in Giza pyramid

Scientists have discovered a hidden passage inside Egypt's Great Pyramid, the authorities announced on Thursday.

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Traveling through time across Indonesia at the National Museum

ImersifA, an interactive exhibit at the National Museum, is designed to immerse visitors in various periods of Indonesian history, from the prehistoric era to the last years of Dutch colonial rule in the mid-20th century.

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Transcending age, literature and visual arts via Goenawan Mohamad's new anthology

Eminent Indonesian man of letters Goenawan Mohamad breaks down the boundaries between the written word and visual art, as he releases a new anthology of poems and an exhibition of prints

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Cockfighting still a popular blood sport in southern Iraq

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Evening musical delights celebrating 30 years of Amadeus Indonesia

This was a “revenge” event, as musical director and orchestra founder Grace Soedargo playfully called it. The more appropriate term, perhaps, is the settlement of a previous promise, as unwieldy as the phrase sounds. For the leisurely stroll through a gallery of musical treasures conducted this week by Henrik Hochschild from Leipzig, Germany, was payback for another event.

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Warhol in the desert: flamboyant art icon pops up in Saudi

Andy Warhol's iconic portraits of stars such as Marlon Brando and Dolly Parton are on display in the Saudi desert, at a show intended to reframe the kingdom's forbidding reputation.

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Tattooed Mexican cat seeks new home after life behind bars

The cat's tattoos decorate both sides of its slender, grey body, and include the phrase "Made in Mexico."

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