Omar Ba starts most of his works by getting down on his hands and knees. Then the renowned Senegalese artist begins to paint a five-metre-long canvas a deep, dark shade of black.

NFTs are tokens linked to digital images, "collectable" items, avatars in games or property and objects in the burgeoning virtual world of the metaverse.

While dejectedly walking to her New Jersey family home, she vowed to her future self that she would soon acquire her own medals to add to her lapel. 

On a blue and yellow background, a graffiti artist retouches a spray-painted image of the half-man, half-shark statue of King Behanzin, one of the stolen treasures returned to Benin by France late last year.

Japanese taiko drumming is a musical form rooted in religious rituals, traditional theater and the joyous abandon of seasonal festivals called matsuri.

Film-makers are holding up a mirror to France over its colonial past at the Cannes festival.

Graffiti artists have created a mural depicting Benin's history and culture stretching more than one kilometre along a wall in Benin's main city of Cotonou.

Speaking to AFP at the Cannes Film Festival, Serebrennikov -- the only Russian national with a film in competition -- condemned Vladimir Putin's war which has sparked calls notably from Ukrainian film-makers to ban all Russians from the event.

Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Untitled" 1982 sold for $85 million at auction in New York, well above its pre-sale estimate.

A recently rediscovered sketch by Michelangelo, the artist's first known nude, sold at auction at Christie's in Paris for 23 million euros.

French-Indonesian illustrator and director Jonathan Hagard’s award-winning collaboration with Japanese animators is a fascinating, yet poignant experience depicting the multi-faceted modern transition and the futility of the capitalist centralized urban model.  

The 1932 Pablo Picasso painting Femme nue couchée sold for US$67.5 million on Tuesday at its auction debut at Sotheby's in New York, the United States, the most recent large sale at auction for blue-chip art.

Museums in Lviv only dare open their doors a chink, convinced Russian forces will pillage Ukraine's culture as they have its villages.

The famed Macklowe collection, subject of a bitter divorce battle between a New York property developer in the United States and his ex-wife, became the most expensive art collection ever sold at auction on Monday.

Stitching together discarded mobile phone keyboards to make art, Ivorian artist Mounou Desire Koffi hopes to raise awareness about pollution.

Takashi Murakami is known for blending pop art and Asian fine arts, but for his latest exhibition in New York, he is moving into the metaverse.

Dating back to the 16th century, the tradition of scribing leaves with cultural knowledge compiled into lontar manuscripts is undergoing an exciting new illustrative era, driven by younger generations of contemporary artists. 

Bob Dylan's first permanent artwork has been installed on the grounds of a wine estate in southern France. 

Christie's expects Warhol's 1964 "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" to become the priciest 20th century artwork when the auction house puts it under the hammer on Monday.

Seeking to appease the god of storms and end a drought, men and women in tiger costumes whip each other mercilessly into submission in an ancient ritual in southern Mexico.

Batik, one of Indonesia’s most beloved icons and a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, comes in a rich variety of patterns, each with a unique origin and meaning. These are 20 batik patterns from across the archipelago.

A refugee held in Australia earned a finalist spot in the nation's top art prize for a self-portrait he painted with a toothbrush.

Raunchy scenes may redden faces at a new exhibition in Pompeii on art and sexuality in the ancient Roman city.

In "The Red Studio," the French artist reproduced almost a dozen miniature versions of his paintings and sculptures as a way to depict his workshop in the Paris suburbs -- not to mention play with perspective, color, time and space.

Using a craft gun to shoot yarn through a fabric screen, Nora Peng puts the finishing touches on a rug in the shape of a corgi's bottom — the perfect stress-relieving hobby for her frantic days.

Rio de Janeiro's Carnaval, a glittering, sequin-studded festival of the flesh, exploded back to life on Friday with the first famed samba school parades since COVID-19 started devastating Brazil.

As dawn breaks, foreign tourists gather by the ancient towers of Cambodia's Angkor Wat, some of the lucky few to see the UNESCO World Heritage Site among thin crowds as the country recovers from the pandemic.

A miniature book of poems written by a 13-year-old Charlotte Bronte was unveiled in New York on Thursday after more than a century hidden away.

In a subterranean metro station serving as a bomb shelter in eastern Ukraine, two flamboyant puppeteers act out a tabletop fairytale for a gaggle of spellbound children.

Mohammad Sirajuddin's cramped studio is typical of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India's dwindling community of artisans painstakingly working by hand to produce silk saris, uniquely cherished among their wearers as the epitome of traditional Indian sartorial style.