The Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) is slated to return on Friday and run until June 2 at multiple theaters across the city-state.
2 days agoSuch a move would give visitors, many of whom visit the Louvre for the iconic painting alone, a better experience, Laurence des Cars told the France Inter broadcaster.
2 weeks agoHong Kong gallery HomeArt snapped up the "Bildnis Fraeulein Lieser" ("Portrait of Miss Lieser"), which was commissioned by a wealthy Jewish industrialist's family and painted by the symbolist master Klimt in 1917 shortly before he died.
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1 year agoQueen Elizabeth II bequeathed her son an estimated £360 million ($448 million) upon her death in September last year, boosting Charles's fortune to £600 million, according to an estimate by The Times.
1 year agoThe African American cowgirl deftly zig-zags around three barrels, showing off why she is considered -- against the sport's stereotypical whiteness and masculinity -- a rising rodeo star.
1 year ago"Isekai" or "alternative world" anime covers a broad range of storylines in which a character is transported into a new life.
1 year agoThe Czech Republic’s Museum of Communism prompts the question whether Indonesia could similarly acknowledge its history’s less-glorious moments
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1 year agoAn art collaboration went literal in converting Bandung art space Selasar PAV for the Dressing Room exhibition
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1 year agoChina feels it has the "right to redefine the global world order", Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said ahead of his first design-focused exhibition in London.
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1 year agoAn exhibition of contemporary Irish women artists in Jakarta showcases their distinct yet universal take on the arts and today’s world, as told from Ireland’s standing as a crossroads between Europe and America.
1 year agoThe 75-year-old has painted the portraits of 2,765 of the women, who are part of a group known in Vietnam as "heroic mothers", in recognition of their sacrifice during the war that ended in 1975.
1 year agoThe energy at Art Basel reflected the increasing importance of the Asian art market, said organisers, who told AFP that their work was not impacted by the city's national security law.
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1 year agoWomen living in Rusunawa Marunda and Rawa Bebek, North Jakarta, produce batik pieces that represent the capital.
1 year agoEver since, biographers have sought to explain the causes of the German composer's death at the age of 56, his progressive hearing loss and his struggles with chronic illness.
1 year agoDress rules have stoked strong passions in Iran, especially restrictions on women who have long been required to wear modest clothing and headscarves.
1 year agoThe Erasmus Huis Jakarta presents an interdisciplinary exhibition, themed La Sirène, with a combination of folklore about mermaids from many different countries.
1 year agoFor years, the Sicilian Mafia terrorised the Italian public and state, with its highest-profile killings that of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992.
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1 year agoScientists have discovered a hidden passage inside Egypt's Great Pyramid, the authorities announced on Thursday.
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1 year agoEminent Indonesian man of letters Goenawan Mohamad breaks down the boundaries between the written word and visual art, as he releases a new anthology of poems and an exhibition of prints
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1 year agoThis was a “revenge” event, as musical director and orchestra founder Grace Soedargo playfully called it. The more appropriate term, perhaps, is the settlement of a previous promise, as unwieldy as the phrase sounds. For the leisurely stroll through a gallery of musical treasures conducted this week by Henrik Hochschild from Leipzig, Germany, was payback for another event.
1 year agoAndy Warhol's iconic portraits of stars such as Marlon Brando and Dolly Parton are on display in the Saudi desert, at a show intended to reframe the kingdom's forbidding reputation.
1 year agoThe cat's tattoos decorate both sides of its slender, grey body, and include the phrase "Made in Mexico."
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