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Antonius Kho stitches memory into mosaic world in Year of the Horse show

Balancing handcrafted traditions with contemporary abstraction, the 53-work exhibition explores memory, identity and emotional texture through richly tactile compositions.

4 days ago
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‘Unbound’: Quiet devastation woven through light and form

The exhibition pairs Allyson Jeong’s meditations on movement and release with Diane Tuft’s photographs of serene beauty, weaving a record of ecological loss. ...

1 week ago
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'IWA #4' affirms the position of Indonesian women artists

Marking its final chapter, Indonesian Women Artists #4 traces two decades of research and exhibition practice while presenting new works that reflect unease, memory and shifting social realities. ...

3 weeks ago

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From Oscar Wilde to suffragettes, new UK museum tells story of policing London

Old police cells, including a so-called drunk tank, have been restored as historical exhibits in London's newest museum, charting the advent and evolution of policing in the British capital.

4 years ago
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Speaking out: Addressing past human rights violations in Aceh and Timor-Leste

Asia Justice and Rights recently launched two animated documentary shorts, “Konta-Sai” and “8:45”, giving two survivors the chance to speak out.

4 years ago
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'Epic Iran' puts 5,000 years of artefacts on show at London's V&A

From ancient sculptures to contemporary photographs, objects spanning 5,000 years of Iranian art, culture and design go on display at London's Victoria & Albert (V&A) museum this week.

5 years ago
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Did cinema chains just pull a rabbit out of the hat?

Peter Rabbit 2 give a boost to cinema chains which had been burning through cash during months of lockdowns.

5 years ago
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'Music soothes pain': Paris cellist plays for end-of-life patients

Claire Oppert, a concert cellist trained at the Moscow Conservatory, visits the facility on Fridays to play for its residents - many of whom are struggling with physical pain as well as coming to terms with incurable illness.

5 years ago
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'Charlie Bit My Finger' video fetches $760,000 at NFT auction

The home video "Charlie Bit My Finger" sold for almost $761,000 on Sunday, the 14th anniversary of its debut.

5 years ago
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Gaza bookshop owner's dreams buried under the rubble

Last Tuesday, owner Samir al-Mansour watched in disbelief as the bookshop and publishing house he had poured his life into went up in smoke.

5 years ago
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Hong Kong's Art Basel fair opens with physical and virtual shows

The Art Basel contemporary art fair opened in Hong Kong on Wednesday, offering a combination of physical and virtual shows as many art collectors and curators were not able to travel to the city because of COVID-19 restrictions.

5 years ago
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Optical illusion leaves Eiffel Tower teetering over ravine

The artwork, by an artist who uses the pseudonym JR, involved laying an image of a ravine, and the pillars that form the base of the Eiffel Tower, onto the floor of an esplanade that overlooks the tower.

5 years ago
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Europe bids to join NFT art auction craze

Europe has joined the craze for NFTs, virtual art pieces inspired by cryptocurrencies that turn the impermanence of the internet into a prized collector's item to be bought and sold like a Rembrandt.

5 years ago
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The show goes on for UK theatres as Covid rules ease

The curtain went up again in Britain's theatres this week, after a year of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, bringing hopes of recovery for the beleaguered culture sector.

5 years ago
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Dutch slavery exhibition confronts brutal past

Dutch national Rijksmuseum opens a landmark exhibition on slavery highlighting the Netherlands' dark colonial past.

5 years ago
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'Wayang uwuh': Using trash to preserve tradition and save the planet

A Yogyakarta craftsman has given life to his dual passion of cultural and environmental conservation in wayang uwuh: shadow puppets he makes out of recycled materials.

5 years ago
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Rio Saren parts with convention to forge fresh direction in Balinese art

The Balinese painter and sculptor eschews artistic conventions through a unique style that fuses imagination with a philosophical underpinning.

5 years ago
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Picasso painting sells for $103 million in New York: auction house

The painting, completed in 1932, was sold after 19 minutes of bidding for $90 million, which rose to $103.4 million when fees and commissions were added, Christie's said.

5 years ago
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Basquiat painting sells in New York for $93.1 million

The 1983 painting, which depicts a skull on a red background, sold for $81 million, but with fees and commissions the final price came to $93.1 million, well above the estimate of $50 million.

5 years ago
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Long-overlooked Black artists dominate New York spring sales

Black artists are represented like never before at New York's spring sales next week after years of being overlooked and underappreciated.

5 years ago
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Ancient Roman 'domus' with mosaic floors tucked under modern flats

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. 

5 years ago
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Billie Eilish and Timothee Chalamet among young Met Gala co-chairs

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.

5 years ago
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Previewing the Traditional, Modern and Contemporary Art sale at Larasati Bali

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.

5 years ago
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Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli serenades ancient Saudi city

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.

5 years ago
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Artists in Bali respond to NFT craze

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.  

5 years ago
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Adrian Adioetomo: I’m Throwing Myself into the Fire

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.

5 years ago
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Indah Arsyad: Metamorphosing science & technology through artistic expression

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.

5 years ago
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An alternate look at mundane objects

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.

5 years ago
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Iraq's Jewish community dwindles to fewer than five

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.

5 years ago
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Rarely seen Paris Van Gogh sells for over $15 million

"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.

5 years ago
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Rare Van Gogh painting of Paris up for auction

"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.

5 years ago
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NFT artwork by humanoid robot sells at auction for nearly $700,000

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.

5 years ago
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Banksy NHS tribute sells for record $20 million at auction

"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.

5 years ago
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