An online exhibition held by Jakarta’s avant-garde Komunitas Salihara cultural center examines cyberspace’s intangible imprints on the real world.

Algeria marks 60 years of independence from France on Tuesday, but rival narratives over atrocities committed during more than a century of colonial rule still trigger bitter diplomatic tensions.

Paris-based UNESCO announced in a statement that it had placed borshch, a rich crimson soup packed with vegetables, on a list of cultural heritage in need of "urgent safeguarding" due to the risk posed to the soup's status as an element of Ukraine's cultural heritage by Moscow's invasion.

More than 40 years after the band shot to notoriety, an exhibition of Morris's classic photographs is revealing the mayhem and violence that surrounded the band to a new generation of fans.

For many LGBT Russian artists, the invasion of Ukraine and the accompanying political crackdown was the final straw. Helped by a Paris charity, they have found a new home in France.

And it was one of the catalysts for the huge democracy protests in the finance hub three years ago, a movement initially triggered by an attempt to allow extraditions to China's mainland.

Britain's most extensive exhibition of African fashion is set to open in London, showcasing designers past and present as well as the continent's diverse heritage and cultures.

For the soft opening of Taman Ismail Marzuki, the Jakarta Arts Council showcases some of its most notable archives and art collection. 

With Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler, eager to rebrand conservative Saudi Arabia as a global arts destination, officials are heaping previously unheard-of opportunities on Mater and his peers.

Armed robbers staged a brazen daylight raid on an international art fair in the Netherlands, smashing a jewellery case with a sledgehammer in front of terrified visitors.

Boys scurry, duck and weave through crowds sheltering from the suffocating heat on Sunday, before upending buckets of cooling water on beefy bovines waiting to compete at the annual traditional Thai buffalo races in Chonburi.

Menswear proved to be in reinvigorated form as Paris Fashion Week ended on Sunday, with spectacle, innovation and the return of big-name designers to the catwalk.   

The Orlando Museum of Art said it had complied with a request for access to works at the show called "Heroes and Monsters: Jean-Michel Basquiat" and that the paintings are now in the hands of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Veterinarians are being called in to inspect sheep at an abattoir in Dubai, where the municipal administration is encouraging residents to use smart apps to order sacrificial animals ahead of one of Islam's major holidays.

A French court on Thursday convicted eight men for the theft and handling of a Banksy painting paying homage to the victims of the 2015 attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.

Once the world’s second-biggest producer of sugar, Indonesia’s love affair with this commodity is bittersweet.

Ndop's richness and distinctive motifs -- often animals or geometric shapes -- are now being threatened by crude rip-offs.

The sun was long overdue on Tuesday but when it finally appeared, faces lit up and arms rose as one to greet the summer solstice at Britain's most famous prehistoric monument.

In a newly renovated white building in the South African township of Alexandra, about 20 children in judogi (judo kit) and others in school uniforms tumble around on a tatami under the watchful eye of a coach.

Ong, 42, has been collecting colonial memorabilia since he was a child and last year opened The Museum Victoria City to put his treasures on display, detached from growing acrimony between China and Britain, fuelled in part by the colonial legacy.

The findings in the journal Science highlight the role of extreme weather events in "changing the course of history", said a statement from the University of Basel in Switzerland –- a relevant lesson as climate change warps today's weather patterns.  

A mysterious creature playing piano, a white tiger baring its fangs and a huge Batgirl: dozens of artists are busy this June painting giant frescoes for the 10th edition of the MURAL Festival of Montreal.

Saudi tour guide Nada Alfuraih ushers guests through an 18th-century palace where the kingdom's royal family is said to have first plotted its conquest of the Arabian Peninsula.

The London singer had spent a decade trying to refine his stage persona, but despite a couple of hits -- 1969's "Space Oddity" and "Changes" two years later -- he had yet to achieve the stardom he craved. 

The exhibition, which turns the sleepy German city of Kassel into the centre of the art world once every five years, kicks off Saturday after months of bitter rows.

Artworks from six artists in Dublin, Ireland showcased how similar the European island is to Indonesia in its history and nature.

In a bid to shake off its fast fashion image and be seen as more eco-friendly, this year "Love Island" has partnered with online marketplace eBay to dress contestants in what eBay calls "pre-loved clothes".

People in Rajasthan customarily plant trees in celebration, but scientists say that planting seeds and saplings are insufficient to tackle land degradation.

As a 13-year-old refugee from the conflict in Kosovo in 1999, his felt-tip pen drawings of soldiers killing civilians were singled out by then-UN secretary general Kofi Annan as a powerful depiction of the war's impact on young minds.

To many they are art's next big thing -- digital images of jellyfish pulsing and blurring in a dark pink sea, or dozens of butterflies fusing together into a single organism.