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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.

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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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12 Indonesian documentary projects selected for Docs By The Sea 2020

The project teams will be given the opportunity to pitch their works in a one-on-one session with donors, broadcasters, distributors, film festivals and other industry practitioners in the international documentary scene on Aug. 26-28.

5 years ago
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Desecrated: blast leaves old Beirut's heritage gems in ruins

Gems of the Beirut's heritage, including some of the region's most elegant Levantine villas with their triple-arch windows, were damaged beyond repair.

5 years ago
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Yemen's UNESCO-listed Old Sanaa houses collapse in heavy rains

Houses in Yemen's UNESCO-listed Old City of Sanaa are collapsing under heavy rains, as months of floods and storms assail a country already reeling from war, food shortages and disease.

5 years ago
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Australian underwater art museum opens at Great Barrier Reef

Created as a call to action for ocean conservation, the Museum of Underwater Art's exhibits are located at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park’s John Brewer Reef.

5 years ago
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Beatboxing for Buddha: Japan monk's musical outreach

The unique musical experience is the work of Yogetsu Akasaka, a Japanese musician and formally trained Buddhist monk who has become a viral phenomenon with tracks marrying religious chanting with beatboxing.

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Raphael's face reconstructed to solve tomb mystery

Art sleuths have created a 3D reconstruction of the face of Italian painter Raphael, solving an age-old mystery over his final resting place.

5 years ago
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Artists' Camp Retrospective in Darwin celebrates Indonesian-Australian cultural ties

Not only does art provide practical and therapeutical benefits for isolated people in lockdown, it also creates opportunities to foster positive international cultural and political relations. 

5 years ago
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Globe-trotting muralist captures public imagination, one wall at a time

His murals may adorn walls around the world, but the Balinese muralist isn’t seeking fame.

5 years ago
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UK's Tate faces heat over racist mural in gallery restaurant

Britain's Tate museum said it was considering how to address "deeply problematic racist imagery" in a restaurant at one of its London galleries, as anti-racism campaigners called for the art to be removed or the restaurant relocated.

5 years ago
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Metropolitan Museum of Art cuts 350 staff amid coronavirus outbreak

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is cutting a further 353 staff as the coronavirus pandemic takes its toll on museums around the world due to restrictions on movement and concerns about public gatherings.

5 years ago
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Fine art and face masks: London's Victoria and Albert Museum reopens

Five thousand years of art and design history will be joined by some more modern items when London's Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum reopens on Thursday - hand sanitizer dispensers and protective screens.

5 years ago
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World's first fully interactive virtual museum to open on Aug. 14

The Virtual Online Museum of Art (VOMA) is scheduled to open on Aug. 14. 

5 years ago
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Painstaking organ repair starts at Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral

Workers began a painstaking four-year process Monday to restore the great organ of the Paris Notre-Dame cathedral, ravaged by fire in April last year.

5 years ago
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Broadway musical on DaVinci's 'Salvator Mundi' in the works

After selling for a historic $450 million in 2017 at Christie's, the Renaissance masterpiece will now take the stage as the subject of a new Broadway musical.  

5 years ago
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Excavation begins at historic Dakar market in renovation project

Heavy-duty excavators have begun to raze the famed Sandaga market, a sprawling hub of informal trade in the heart of Senegal's capital Dakar, which the authorities want to rebuild and modernize.

5 years ago
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100th Salzburg festival kicks off under virus restrictions

One of the world's most prestigious summer music festivals opened in Austria this weekend, with strict anti-coronavirus measures in place.

5 years ago
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Japan's kabuki theater resumes, socially distanced, after coronavirus hiatus

Japan's stately traditional kabuki theater resumed performances on Saturday after a five-month break due to the novel coronavirus, with musicians in masks, actors farther apart on stage and only half the usual number of seats.

5 years ago
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Art in a pandemic: Tokyo show tests if fans will come

It's a blockbuster exhibition, featuring some of the biggest names in Japan's contemporary art scene. But will people flock to galleries in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic?

5 years ago
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Teater Koma's ‘Tanda Cinta’: An exploration of love, life

Bakti Budaya Djarum Foundation’s #NontonTeaterDiRumahAja program serves up something dramatic through Teater Koma’s streamed play.

5 years ago
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Surviving selfies: Japan's purikura photo booths cling on

Old-style photo booths have staged something of a comeback in parts of the world in recent years, for their nostalgic value in the smartphone era. But the purikura -- an abbreviation of the Japanese pronunciation of "print club" -- offers much more than a simple strip of passport photos.

5 years ago
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Postcard reveals site of Van Gogh's 'farewell note in color' before suicide

Stuck at home during lockdown, Dutch researcher Wouter van der Veen finally found time to look through old postcards of the French village where Vincent Van Gogh died and made a remarkable discovery.

5 years ago
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Japan's renowned artists find inspiration from pandemic

Some of Japan's best-known artists are finding new avenues of expression in areas such as online communication and the environment, as the novel coronavirus outbreak sparks ideas as radical as renaming the country's "Reiwa" imperial era.

5 years ago
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Israeli artist mocks Netanyahu in 'Last Supper' installation

An Israeli artist mocked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday in a re-enactment of "The Last Supper" installed in central Tel Aviv, a day after people protesting against him in the city were beaten and bloodied.

5 years ago
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Rare Rembrandt sells for £14.5 million at UK auction

One of only three self-portraits by Rembrandt still in private hands sold in London Tuesday for £14.5 million ($18.7 million, 16 million euros), setting an auction record for one of the Dutch master's self-portraits.

5 years ago
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Banksy triptych raises $3 million for Palestinian hospital

A triptych of a Mediterranean shipwreck donated by British street artist Banksy raised nearly $3 million on Tuesday at a Sotheby's auction held to raise funds for a Palestinian hospital in the West Bank.

5 years ago
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Arisan Karya art raffle goes Instagram Live for final edition

If you love raffles and art, get ready for the third and final edition of the Arisan Karya, with art raffle coming to you by Instagram Live on Aug. 3.

5 years ago
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Banksy to donate sale of artwork to Palestinian hospital

British street artist Banksy is to donate the proceeds from the auction of one of his works, valued at over $1 million, to a Palestinian hospital, one of his collaborators told AFP on Monday.

5 years ago
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Taking the fight to Trump: Documentary follows rights lawyers

Immigrant families separated, battles over abortion, voter suppression, and a transgender military ban: the Trump administration has been a frantically busy period for US rights lawyers, a new documentary shows.

5 years ago
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Despite the success of their online sales, auction houses saw 49% drop in sales

While online-only sales have boomed in reaction to coronavirus-induced lockdowns, a new report by ArtTactic reveals that the global art market is still struggling to recoup its losses. 

5 years ago
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Mary Justice Designs’ furniture highlights Indonesian nature, history

Mary Justice Designs, a Bali-based luxury furniture company, uses sustainable, handmade furniture to showcase the natural beauty and history of Indonesia.

5 years ago
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