Chile's National Museum of Natural History said on Monday it would return to Easter Island an enormous stone statue taken from the Rapa Nui people and brought to the mainland 150 years ago.

The soaring minarets of Suleymaniye mosque paint the postcard image of Istanbul, but that is now blighted by rickety wooden scaffolding at a nearby construction site.

The manuscript of The Little Prince travels to France for the first time this week as part of an exhibition about its legendary author Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

Artists are chainsawing blocks of ice from a frozen river in the Indian Himalayas, creating what they hope will be the beginnings of India's answer to China's Harbin International Ice Festival.

After a two-year hiatus, the National Gallery is holding an art exhibition titled "Para Sekutu yang Tidak Bisa Berkata Tidak" (The Acquiescent Allies), held by Goethe-Institute in collaboration with art institutions in Thailand, Singapore and Germany.

Within months in the art world and beyond, NFTs went from an obscure acronym to a 24/7 obsession. Now they are taking over Bali.

Bandung-born artist Arahmaiani is known for using her art and activism to fight for the environment, as well as in helping local communities to apply traditional methods and wisdoms to develop sustainable farms.

Mangeshkar, 92, made her name in the world of Bollywood and her voice has rung out on television sets, on crackly airwaves and from movie theatres for most of independent India's three quarters of a century, earning her the name "the Nightingale".

Vandals in central France attacked a sculpture of an Algerian military hero who resisted France's colonisation of the North African country.

One year after its sudden and disconcerting disappearance from a wall at the United Nations, a vast tapestry representing Picasso's iconic Guernica has been returned by owners the Rockefeller family to its prominent place at the global body.

She was 92 and is survived by her four siblings. Mangeshkar was hospitalised on Jan. 11 after she was detected with COVID-19, Indian media said.

The rehanging of the immense weaving was underway Saturday morning, a UN source said, as diplomats expressed relief about the return of the 25-foot-wide (7.5-meter) work which hung outside the Security Council chambers, where presidents, prime ministers and ambassadors would regularly pass.

Devotion to your religion does not mean you should quit your passion for creativity. These hijab cosplayers breakthrough limitations without leaving their faith.

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara's (MACAN) latest exhibition "Present Continuous/Sekarang Seterusnya" is a platform where artistic communities can collaborate to celebrate diversity.

Marrying into a Chinese-Indonesian family can be like being initiated into a unique cultural tradition. However, it can also lead to a relationship fraught with historical trauma.

Singer Joni Mitchell said she was pulling her music from Spotify over "lies" on the streaming service about Covid-19, just days after fellow musical titan Neil Young did the same.

The family of Pablo Picasso have denied widespread media reports that they plan to sell digital versions, or "NFTs", of his artwork.

"I realized I could not continue to support SPOTIFY's life threatening misinformation to the music loving public," Young, a polio survivor, said in an open letter. 

A new generation has taken power in Chile, and Allende, perhaps the most popular Spanish-language writer on the planet, is welcoming the dawning political era with open arms. 

Toxic stories from the pantheons of art makes one ponder: can you truly enjoy an artwork while fully aware of the artist’s sexual misconduct?

Live concert photographer Hafiyyan Faza, aka HIGH ISO, has captured impressive photos of national music legends and international stars including Foo Fighters and Linkin Park.

Orthopedic surgeon Emmanuel Masmejean was reported to be selling an image of an X-Ray showing a forearm containing a Kalashnikov bullet as an NFT for around US$ 2,776 without the patient's consent.

Fashion giant Hermes accused Mason Rothschild, an NFT creator, for trying to profit from Birkin, one of Hermes' most iconic trademarks, after Rothschild named his works that depict fanciful furry Birkin bags "MetaBirkins".

A rare Botticelli painting depicting Jesus Christ will go up for auction on Jan. 27 at Sotheby's in New York, a year after a record $92 million was paid for a work by the Italian Renaissance master. 

But those days of stretching and contorting under a depiction of the gods may soon be over. The villa in central Rome is up for auction due to a bitter inheritance dispute.

With hundreds of potential clients racing to get his work inked onto their bodies, tattoo artist Mulie Addlecoat remains spiritual in his approach.

Vietnamese are paying hundreds of dollars for gold-plated tiger models as gifts as Lunar New Year draws near.

With fish and turtles swimming around them, divers performed an underwater lion dance in a Malaysian aquarium, in a fresh take on the traditional Lunar New Year performance.

The foundations of a prayer hall from the 12th century have been discovered under the Al-Nuri mosque -- where the Islamic State group once proclaimed their "caliphate" -- in Iraq's Mosul, site managers said Tuesday.

The large sculpture of a blue man sitting on the roof is invisible to the naked eye but it is there -- in augmented reality.