But the world-famous waltz truly travelled among the stars on Saturday when the European Space Agency's antenna broadcast a live performance of it into space to celebrate the composer's 200th birthday.
2 days agoInspired by the Batavia shipwreck incident in the 1600s, the exhibition underscores the lasting colonial impact alongside Jakarta’s pressing environmental challenges.
5 days agoThe photographer leaves a unique legacy of images from his hundreds of journeys through the Amazon rainforest and across the planet, from Rwanda to Indonesia, capturing with his lens human tragedies such as famine, wars and mass exoduses.
1 week 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.
2 years 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.
2 years ago"Isekai" or "alternative world" anime covers a broad range of storylines in which a character is transported into a new life.
2 years agoThe Czech Republic’s Museum of Communism prompts the question whether Indonesia could similarly acknowledge its history’s less-glorious moments
2 years agoA viral AI-generated song imitating Drake and The Weeknd was pulled from streaming services this week, but did it actually breach copyright as claimed by record label Universal?
2 years agoAn art collaboration went literal in converting Bandung art space Selasar PAV for the Dressing Room exhibition
2 years agoNeon signs once transformed Hong Kong's oldest neighbourhoods into a kaleidoscope of luminous colour after dark, but most have now been removed.
2 years 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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2 years agoHome to more than 8,000 artists, southern China's Dafen has been producing near-perfect copies of timeless masterpieces for years.
2 years 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.
2 years 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.
2 years 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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2 years agoThe digital artist materializes its graphical commentary in Selasar Sunaryo Art Space’s latest exhibition, U R My Inspiration ☺✨: Love Letters to the *** World
2 years agoWomen living in Rusunawa Marunda and Rawa Bebek, North Jakarta, produce batik pieces that represent the capital.
2 years 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.
2 years agoDress rules have stoked strong passions in Iran, especially restrictions on women who have long been required to wear modest clothing and headscarves.
2 years agoThe Erasmus Huis Jakarta presents an interdisciplinary exhibition, themed La Sirène, with a combination of folklore about mermaids from many different countries.
2 years 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.
2 years agoAt first glance it seems to be just a modern take on Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece "Girl with a Pearl Earring". But look more closely and things get a little strange.
2 years agoHaving directed multiple successful films alongside a rich acting, singing and traditional dance career in the 1940s through the 60s, Ratna Asmara, Indonesia’s first woman director, should be a celebrated figure. Why has her name been forgotten?
2 years agoScientists have discovered a hidden passage inside Egypt's Great Pyramid, the authorities announced on Thursday.
2 years agoImersifA, an interactive exhibit at the National Museum, is designed to immerse visitors in various periods of Indonesian history, from the prehistoric era to the last years of Dutch colonial rule in the mid-20th century.
2 years 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
2 years agoThe popular blood sport "dates back to the 1920s or earlier" in Basra and is thought to have arrived with boats at the port, he added.
2 years 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.
2 years 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.
2 years agoThe cat's tattoos decorate both sides of its slender, grey body, and include the phrase "Made in Mexico."
2 years agoThanks to modern technology, precise 3D copies of two 16th-century sculptures will be made and installed in the French castle where the originals long resided.
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