At the entrance of the 1950s building at the foot of Rome's Aventine Hill, all appears normal, with a resident loaded with shopping bags kindly holding the door. 

Normally held in early May, the charity ball was postponed to September 13 in the hope that many Covid-19 restrictions will be lifted by then. The 2020 edition was canceled due to the pandemic.

Artworks categorized by the Ubud School of Painting, the most famous Balinese art genre, feature in the upcoming Traditional, Modern and Contemporary Art Larasati Bali Sale in Ubud on Saturday.

Bocelli performed alongside his family members at UNESCO World Heritage site Hegra in the kingdom's Al-Ula governorate, a long-isolated area seen widely as an open-air museum.

The revolutionary development of digital technology within contemporary art is taking the world by storm. It is not aesthetic distinctions that characterize the latest art trend, but a new term associated with the distributed ledger technology that allows for artworks to be easily tracked and traded. The Jakarta Post talks with two Bali-based artists about the crypto art craze.  

With a music career spanning 15 years, bluesman Adrian Adieotomo has done it all, but on his new album, he had to go somewhere he hadn’t been before.

A landscape and environmental engineer by trade, Indah takes her technical training and insights and transforms them into creative works that comment on the human condition.

A lounge chair with resin infused in its cracks; a wooden standing lamp with a wine bucket as its lampshade; a dining chair with metal legs and attached trolley wheels. Creative project ReaR Window’s curiously-designed furniture veers between functional products and art objects.

At the Habibiya Jewish cemetery in the capital Baghdad, wedged between the Martyr Monument erected by ex-dictator Saddam Hussein and the restive Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, an aged Muslim man still tends to the graves, but visitors are rare.

"Street Scene in Montmartre" -- on public display for the first time since its creation in 1887, after a century in the same collection -- fetched 13.09 million euros ($15.4 million), the auction house said.

"Street Scene in Montmartre" is the highlight of 33 works from masters including Degas, Magritte, Modigliani, Klee, Rodin and his muse Camille Claudel being sold in an auction streamed live by Sotheby's in Paris.

NFTs, a digital signature saved on blockchain ledgers that allows anyone to verify the ownership and authenticity of items, have become the latest investment craze, with one artwork selling this month for nearly $70 million.

"Game Changer", which was unveiled last May at University Hospital Southampton, paid tribute to the frontline workers of Britain's National Health Service (NHS) in their fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

"For the first time in approximately 60 years, archaeological excavations have uncovered fragments of a biblical scroll," the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said in a statement. 

"The British government has a firm and long-standing position on the sculptures: they were legally acquired by Lord Elgin, in accordance with the laws in force at the time," Johnson told Greek newspaper Ta Nea.

"The reason many go to the Louvre is to see the Mona Lisa, and the Sistine Chapel, the Creation of Adam. There are valuable masterpieces that can compare to that in the Lee collection," said the critic, who declined to be identified.

"Everydays: The First 5,000 Days" became the most expensive ever "non-fungible token" (NFT) -- a collectible digital asset that uses blockchain technology to turn virtual work into a unique item.

That was one of countless questions facing the managers of Glyndebourne, an opera house set in idyllic countryside in southern England, as they planned the 2021 summer festival whilst under COVID-19 lockdown.

Hindu ascetics known as Naga sadhus, many naked apart from a coating of ash and carrying swords or tridents, led the bathers at the Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival, in the northern town of Haridwar.

A decade of war has not only destroyed Syria's present and poisoned its future, it has damaged beyond repair some of its fabled past.

A furtive peek into the country’s sensual art world.

About 100 high-profile Italians signed a letter demanding changes to the Treccani online dictionary after a similar campaign forced the Oxford English dictionary to alter its definition last year.

Zhao became the first Asian woman in history to win the best director Golden Globe and the first woman to win best drama with the semi-fictional film, which stars Oscar winner Frances McDormand alongside a rag-tag bunch of non-actors living on the open road in the American West.

The artwork shows a prisoner escaping on a rope made of bedsheets tied to a typewriter.

A newly renovated colossal mausoleum for the founder of the Roman empire Augustus has reopened to the public in the Italian capital after centuries of neglect.

Book illustrators long for a holistic publishing environment that rewards artists for their time and skills.

“We don’t know if it’s good or bad, we eat it simply because it’s easy and fast” - Indonesian artist Cynthia Delaney Suwito uses the staple meal to get her point across.

The artist's unique creations have been featured around the world but the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum marks the first major retrospective in his 25-year career.

The January burglary of the Southeast Sulawesi museum shows that Indonesian museums need more support, funding and updating amid the international efforts to repatriate looted art and artifacts.

The ubiquitous paintings found in street food stalls did not arrive from nowhere; it came from one painter in East Java with big dreams