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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.

2 days 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.

1 week 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.

1 week ago

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NY Philharmonic is back, pandemic-style: Playing in the streets

Its fall season has been cancelled and its concert hall closed indefinitely, so New York's Philharmonic is taking it to the streets.

4 years ago
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British Museum acquires 'lost' drawings of Japan's Hokusai

The British Museum said it had acquired 103 "lost" drawings from the 19th century of Japanese artist Hokusai, whose internationally renowned work includes the iconic "The Great Wave".

4 years ago
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Russia's Bolshoi Theatre reopens with a socially distanced 'Don Carlo'

Russia's opera aficionados will flock to the Bolshoi Theatre for the first time in almost six months on Sunday, wearing masks and sitting apart in a half-empty auditorium for a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's "Don Carlo".

4 years ago
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Mutant cats still a draw at Hemingway's virus-hit Florida home

Starved of international visitors, the house once inhabited by writer Ernest Hemingway in the Florida Keys has struggled to stay open. 

4 years ago
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Virtual exhibition highlights folk tales from four continents

Held until Dec. 22, virtual exhibition Let's Talk about Folklore from 4 Continents can be viewed on YouTube.

4 years ago
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Arab artists boycott UAE after Israel deal

The United Arab Emirates' move to pursue normalization with Israel has prompted a backlash from Arab artists and intellectuals, who are boycotting Emirati-backed cultural awards and events to support the Palestinian cause.

4 years ago
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Can Japan's ancient Noh theater survive coronavirus?

Kennosuke Nakamori's sonorous voice fills a small room as he practices the lines of a traditional Japanese Noh play, even though he hasn't performed before a live audience in months.

4 years ago
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City of London reviews monuments linked to slavery

The City of London Corporation, which runs the British capital's historic financial district, launched a public consultation Tuesday on whether to remove or re-label monuments with links to slavery.

4 years ago
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Couples design their own 'virtual babies' at Dutch art exhibit

Couples who want children of their own got a brief taste of parenthood by creating their own "digital babies" during a virtual reality art exhibit in the Netherlands.

4 years ago
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'Fake' Rembrandt might be real, says UK museum

A painting dismissed as a Rembrandt copy and kept in storage at a British university museum, does come from the Dutch master's studio, the institution said on Monday.

4 years ago
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Eddy Susanto puts Java as the center of the world in his works

Eddy Susanto’s visually juxtapositional artwork are as phenomenal as they are inspiring, creating a niche genre in contemporary art that is entirely his own.

4 years ago
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Sotheby's puts the spotlight on the personal collection of Keith Haring

Sotheby's has teamed up with the Keith Haring Foundation for an exclusive online sale dedicated to the famous American street artist, who passed away in 1990 at the age of 31 following a battle with AIDS.

4 years ago
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Salihara announces online art festival

Online festival Musim Seni Salihara will include the latest works of notable performance artists and discussions.

4 years ago
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France's Charlie Hebdo reprints Mohammed cartoons for trial

French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in 2015, said Tuesday it was republishing hugely controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to mark this week's start of the trial of alleged accomplices to the attack.

4 years ago
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Lone revelers brighten Notting Hill's empty streets on carnival day

Notting Hill Carnival may have been cancelled this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but a couple of colorful individuals on Monday were determined to bring some festival spirit to west London's quiet streets.

4 years ago
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Lebanon loses defender of heritage architecture Lady Cochrane

A veteran advocate of the arts and Lebanon's cultural heritage, Yvonne Sursock Cochrane died Monday aged 98, four weeks after the devastating Beirut blast in which she was injured.

4 years ago
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Ready, set, Zoom: India gypsy dancers take their art online

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many people to go online, but the largely nomadic, marginalized Kalbeliya face bigger challenges than most, with several living in mud huts or tents with patchy electricity and non-existent WiFi.

4 years ago
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Latvian art biennial has a coronavirus twist

The coronavirus pandemic has shut down art exhibitions around the globe, but organizers of the RIBOCA2 biennial in Latvia have pushed ahead, reimagining the event to reflect challenging times.

4 years ago
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New Yorkers celebrate Met's reopening as a sign life is returning

With visitors raising their arms in a sign of victory, clapping and lining up eagerly at ticket windows, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its doors to the public on Saturday in a festive atmosphere  -- a sign for many that the largest US metropolis is returning to normality after a nearly six-month closure caused by the coronavirus pandemic. 

4 years ago
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Freud's Vienna private rooms open, bereft of furniture

All of Sigmund Freud's private rooms in Vienna opened to the public on Saturday -- though they are devoid of any furniture since the Jewish founder of psychoanalysis took almost everything with him when he fled to London before World War II.

4 years ago
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Italy sends help to Banksy's overloaded migrant rescue boat

The Italian coastguard sent help on Saturday to a rescue boat funded by British street artist Banksy after the vessel issued urgent calls for assistance, saying it was stranded in the Mediterranean and overloaded with migrants.

4 years ago
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Fabric of success: How 'lotus silk' is weaving its way into Vietnam

Vietnamese weaver Phan Thi Thuan hitches up her trousers as she wades into a lotus paddy to gather the stems needed to make a rare and highly sought-after thread.

4 years ago
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UNESCO in massive fundraising drive for blast-hit Beirut

The UN's culture and education body will organize two conferences to seek "considerable" funding for blast-hit Beirut, its director said Thursday in the Lebanese capital.

4 years ago
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New statue of UK's Princess Diana to be installed next year

A new statue of Britain's Princess Diana will be installed at Kensington Palace next July on what would have been her 60th birthday, the palace said on Friday, after a delay due to the coronavirus pandemic.

4 years ago
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HRW slams Jordan arrest of cartoonist over UAE drawing

Human Rights Watch on Friday urged Jordan to release prominent cartoonist Emad Hajjaj after he was arrested for publishing a drawing deemed offensive to the United Arab Emirates.

4 years ago
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Banksy funds Mediterranean refugee rescue boat: Report

British street artist Banksy is funding a ship covered with his own artwork to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean and has so far picked up at least 89 people.

4 years ago
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New York's Museum of Modern Art re-opens with few visitors

New York's Museum of Modern Art reopened its doors Thursday following a nearly six-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

4 years ago
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No laughing matter as Dutch masterwork stolen for third time

Thieves have stolen the painting "Two Laughing Boys" by Dutch golden age artist Frans Hals from a museum in the Netherlands, the third time it has been taken, police said Thursday.

4 years ago
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World's first virtual art museum looks beyond 'the white viewer'

The world's first entirely virtual art museum is set to open next month, hoping to bring masterpieces to anyone in the world with an internet connection.

4 years ago
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NY's Central Park inaugurates statue of 'real women,' a first

It's a small but significant foot in the door of an urban landscape completely dominated by white men: On Wednesday, New York's Central Park inaugurated its first statue honoring "real women," two of them white and one black, all of them pioneers in the struggle for women's rights. 

4 years ago