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.

Jia CURATED returns bigger than ever, showcasing 70 curated presentations and spotlighting around 150 designers and brands from Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

An art therapist leads sessions online and at her studio in Florence, Italy. But she believes anyone can enjoy art as a form of emotional release or self-expression from the comfort of home.

But the world-famous waltz truly travelled among the stars on Saturday when the European Space Agency's antenna broadcast a live performance of it into space to celebrate the composer's 200th birthday.

Inspired by the Batavia shipwreck incident in the 1600s, the exhibition underscores the lasting colonial impact alongside Jakarta’s pressing environmental challenges.

The photographer leaves a unique legacy of images from his hundreds of journeys through the Amazon rainforest and across the planet, from Rwanda to Indonesia, capturing with his lens human tragedies such as famine, wars and mass exoduses.

Commemorating this year’s International Museum Day, Culture Minister Fadli Zon has reaffirmed his commitment to making museums a pillar of national cultural infrastructure.

The relatively small exhibition features 12 women artists who use a varying range of mediums in a diversity of artistic expressions to explore collective realities.

The exhibition takes its title from one of the collaborative sculptures, which depicts three characters working together in a "panjat pinang" competition as it represents the Indonesian spirit of "gotong royong".

The exhibition follows the footsteps of women who were instrumental to national development through their contributions in education, medicine and journalism.

Through her letters, she challenged injustice. Now, in an era shaped by digital voices and collective movements, her voice continues to inspire generations.

Tracing its beginning to the COVID-era lockdowns, the fourth installment of Art Jakarta's "garden edition" exudes freshness and renewal through crafts, sculptures and innovative pieces.

Now despite that long journey and his 81 years of age, the Ethiopian music legend cannot even "think about retirement".

This year’s exhibition features eight works by six Irish artists: Aaron Sunderland Carey, Electronic Sheep (Brenda Aherne and Helen Delany), Isobel McCarthy, Mary Sullivan and Olivia Normile.

The exhibit, which runs until May 11 at the National Gallery, showcases over 100 pieces by Bandung artist Arkiv Vilmansa in a glorious burst of whimsical shape, form and color that offers escape from today’s realities.

Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer, the Grotte de Cussac in the Dordogne department holds ancient human remains, traces of long-extinct bears and stunning, fragile artworks its custodians go to great lengths to preserve.

The concept behind the batik paintings was to narrate Irish folklore through the intricate language of batik.

The documentary highlights the parallel realities in which the two friends live - Abraham with his yellow Israeli number plate that lets him travel anywhere, Adra confined to a territory that only ever gets smaller for Palestinians.

The renowned author, best known for his critical essays and the Buru Quartet, continues to be a force for justice through his spiritual successors in activism, music and of course, literature.

Sitting on a wooden chair in an open pavilion bordering that beautiful panorama, painter I Wayan Karja glanced south toward his spacious family compound anda thin, almost unseen, smile formed on his lips.

A literary and arts event from Feb. 6 to 8 in Blora kicked off a yearlong centenary celebration of Pramoedya, but a misinformed protest shows that while this is a solid first step, a broader wave might be needed to restore the reputation of Indonesia's most renowned writer, almost 30 years after the downfall of the New Order.

Known for its extraordinary sound, the "Joachim-Ma Stradivarius," named after its distinguished former owners, became the third most-expensive musical instrument ever sold at auction.

Fadli envisions a future where museum development expands beyond Java, aiming for the country to be recognized as a "nation of a thousand museums".

Through more than the 200 pieces of art exhibited at S.E.A. Focus 2025, it is apparent that Southeast Asian artists dealt with the powers that be in their work — be it Western art hegemony, local politicians or the flow of time itself.

Titled “Disconnected Contemporaries”, this year’s theme sets out to present various Southeast Asian artworks from different periods in modern history. The exhibition runs from Jan. 18 to 26. 

The baths excavated at the Roman villa make up "one of the largest private thermal complexes" found so far in the ancient city, near Naples, which was devastated when nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago.

Humans have revered mountains and volcanoes since the dawn of civilization, with both awe and fear inspiring various forms of artistic and cultural expression. 

The artist was a nomad for years because of a crackdown on her paintings, installations and performances, which were viewed as provocative in Indonesia.

The iconic museum in Central Java has come back stronger after a fire razed Building A in 2023, reopening on Oct. 15 with a new exhibition showcasing renovated buildings and new collections that runs until the end of this year.

A collaboration of classical musicians from Italy and Indonesia to bring composer Giacomo Puccini's work to audiences was an apt way to celebrate the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.