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East meets West: The traditional Gandrung dance of Banyuwangi meets raptor courtship as the Prehistoric Body Theater reimagines the Acheroraptor’s final days in 'Ghosts of Hell Creek: Stone Garuda'.
East meets West: The traditional Gandrung dance of Banyuwangi meets raptor courtship as the Prehistoric Body Theater reimagines the Acheroraptor’s final days in 'Ghosts of Hell Creek: Stone Garuda'.
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‘Ghosts of Hell Creek’: Echoes of mass extinction and a call for harmony

The piece transports audiences into the prehistoric world, just before the Chicxulub asteroid struck earth 66 million years ago. At the heart of the story is the Acheroraptor, one of the last dinosaurs to walk the planet.

1 week ago
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From youth to rhythm, Sarawak’s twin celebrations of sustainability and culture

From rainforest dialogues to global rhythms, Sarawak is hosting two of Southeast Asia’s most dynamic events, the Rainforest Youth Summit 2025 (RAYS) and the Rainforest World Music Festival 2025 (RWMF) this week, charting a bold, intergenerational vision for sustainable tourism, environmental leadership and cultural connection in the heart of Borneo.

2 weeks ago
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‘The Hidden Treasures of Sudjana Kerton’: Remembering for tomorrow

Amid today’s digital art surge, the exhibition, running from June 11 to 26, invites us to reflect on Indonesia’s history through his powerful, timeless works.

2 weeks ago

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Great-grandmother keeps Indian martial art alive

Deftly parrying her son with a bamboo cane, Meenakshi Amma belies her 78 years with her prowess at kalari, thought to be India's oldest martial art.

3 years ago
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Danish artist loaned $84,000 by museum keeps cash, says it's art

Jens Haaning, a Danish artist, ended up pocketing the 534,000 kroner ($84,000) that the museum loaned him and sending blank canvasses with a new title: "Take the Money and Run".

3 years ago
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Changing the narrative: contemporary musicians take on 'Genjer-Genjer'

The song ‘Genjer-Genjer’ is often associated with a scene of brutal slaughter in the Indonesian pseudo-docudrama Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI.

3 years ago
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Never released John Lennon recording to be auctioned in Copenhagen

The tape, featuring the song "Radio Peace", was recorded on Jan. 5, 1970 by four Danish boys who had succeeded in getting a interview with the couple for a local school magazine.

3 years ago
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Dutch man gets eight years for Van Gogh, Hals thefts

A Dutch court sentenced a man to eight years in jail Friday for stealing two paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from small museums.

3 years ago
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Resilience on display: How Indonesia’s art industry copes with the pandemic

Can our art industry, a sector that relies heavily on live performances, survive the pandemic? 

3 years ago
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Illuminating I Gusti Made Deblog: The mysterious icon of Balinese art

What separated the often-reclusive artist from his peers was his achievements beyond the conventions with Chinese ink and his naturalist painting style development.

3 years ago
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Nirvana's Nevermind: An album forged by contradictions

Released 30 years ago this week, Nevermind was a generation-defining milestone that sold 30 million copies and made a tragic icon of Kurt Cobain.

3 years ago
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'Art is dying': Afghan artists hope to resist Taliban rule

Two days after the Taliban seized Kabul last month, 26-year-old artist Sara took the terracotta plates she'd painted and hurled them to the ground.

3 years ago
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Notes of desperation: Pandemic exacerbates struggles of Indonesian musicians

The job drought experienced by Indonesia’s working musicians during the pandemic shows the lack of support the country’s creative workers have always had.

3 years ago
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Notre-Dame de Paris finally ready for restoration

France's Notre-Dame cathedral is finally ready to undergo restoration work more than two years after a blaze ravaged the heritage landmark.

3 years ago
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Saudi Arabia's desert camel carvings dated to around 7,000 years ago

The 21 reliefs, which were only recently discovered, are heavily eroded and were initially estimated in 2018 to be some 2,000 years old based on similarities with artworks found in Petra in Jordan. 

3 years ago
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Russian art trove and its tortured history comes to Paris

The line-up at the Louis Vuitton Foundation's new exhibition in Paris reads like a who's who of artistic giants from the Belle Epoque: Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Cezanne... 

3 years ago
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Masterpiece or monstrosity? Tourists bemused by Arc de Triomphe artwork

Workers on harnesses spent several days enveloping the 50-meter, 19th century arch in a silvery blue, recyclable plastic curtain, a project first imagined decades ago by the late Bulgarian-born Christo.

3 years ago
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Eternal love for Indonesia: Knowing Sultan Agung through S. Sudjojono's strokes

Art exhibition Mukti Negeriku! highlights the creative processes behind a lasting masterpiece that narrates history.

3 years ago
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New Belgian opera evokes US racial discord

Baroque, jazz, rap: centuries of musical heritage intertwine to tell the tale of a mixed-race family in a new opera being premiered in Brussels based on an epic novel of America's troubled 20th century.

3 years ago
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Robert Wilson, avant-garde theatre legend: 'France gave me a home'

Theatre director Robert Wilson helped transform the way opera is seen around the world, but as he turns 80, it is still Europe that comes calling, while he remains largely ignored back home in the US.

3 years ago
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Gold armor for Lil Nas X, all black for Kim Kardashian at Met Gala

The crowd of some 400 actors, athletes, poets and performers -- all of whom were either vaccinated or had tested negative for Covid-19 -- was largely maskless on the cream carpet, defying the global coronavirus pandemic that forced the cancellation of last year's event. 

3 years ago
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Eko Supriyanto: revisiting and reinterpreting dance

An Indonesian dance veteran has experienced everything from working with Madonna to creating his own routines

3 years ago
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Wrapping of Arc de Triomphe begins in Christo tribute

After weeks of preparations, the final stage of the art installation has begun, with a silver-blue sheet unfurled from the top of the imposing war memorial at the top of the Champs-Elysees. 

3 years ago
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Sao Paulo art fest gives voice to resistance in times of darkness

A meteorite salvaged from a 2018 fire at Rio de Janeiro's National Museum symbolizes resistance to the destruction of culture in times of darkness.

3 years ago
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Halloween's Jamie Lee Curtis: 'I hate horror movies'

The 62 year-old actress said the secret to her success in the horror genre is that she was scared easily.

3 years ago
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'Dear Evan Hansen' opens hybrid Toronto Film Festival

The film, an adaptation of the Broadway production, stars Tony Award winner Ben Platt reprising his role as a high school student with social anxiety who gets caught up in a lie. Julianne Moore, Amy Adams and Kaitlyn Dever are among the cast.

3 years ago
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Art collection featuring Warhol, Picasso heads to auction, valued at $600 million

The first auction will feature iconic works such as Warhol's silkscreen portraits of Marilyn Monroe, an enormous tritone painting by Mark Rothko, and a seascape by Gerhard Richter.

3 years ago
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Art, terror and erections show VR potential at Venice

VR competitions have become a regular feature of film festivals around the world, from Sundance to Cannes, but many remain unaware of how quickly the medium is evolving. 

3 years ago
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Rom-com queen Kate Hudson takes 'brave' turn with dark fairytale at Venice

The film, which is competing for the Golden Lion at the festival, tells the story of a Korean girl with telepathic powers who escapes from a mental institution and forms a bond with Hudson's erotic dancer. 

3 years ago
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Afghan art activist defiant as Taliban erase Kabul murals

Within weeks of the Islamists taking the capital, many of the street art pieces have been painted over, replaced by drab propaganda slogans as the Taliban reimpose their austere vision on Afghanistan.

3 years ago
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Maggie Gyllenhaal picks Ferrante novel for her directing debut

The script is adapted from the eponymous 2006 book by Elena Ferrante - a pseudonym of the notoriously secretive Italian author best known for her Neapolitan novels with whom Gyllenhaal only corresponded by letter.

3 years ago
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About time: Indonesia rediscovers an overlooked renaissance man

Harijadi Sumadijaja, a midcentury social realist artist sidelined during the Soeharto era, is only beginning to be recognized.

3 years ago
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Afghanistan becoming 'country without artists' exiled directors warn Venice

"In just two weeks, the most brilliant elements have left the country, at least those who were able," 38-year-old director Sahraa Karimi told reporters at the festival on Saturday.

3 years ago