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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.

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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.

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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.

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Melania Trump statue burned in Slovenia

The US artist behind a wooden statue of Melania Trump in Slovenia said Thursday that he was mulling an "artistic response" after his work was burned down at the weekend.

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Parisian street artist accused of rape, sex assault

French authorities have opened an investigation into Parisian street artist Wilfrid A, known for his uplifting graffiti, after almost 30 women filed complaints accusing him of rape and sexual assault, prosecutors told AFP on Wednesday.

4 years ago
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National Gallery becomes first major London museum to reopen

Britain's National Gallery reopens on Wednesday, with masks recommended and social distancing and advance booking mandatory, as the country continues to emerge from three months of coronavirus lockdown.

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Lockdown arts magazine to help beleaguered creatives

Vivienne Westwood and Wolfgang Tillmans are among 100 artists who have contributed art and articles to a new magazine LIMBO created especially to help colleagues who are out of work and to capture the world during lockdown. 

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As museums reopen across the world, are people ready to go back to cultural institutions?

As museums and galleries are emerging from their coronavirus lockdowns, most are still puzzling over how to reconfigure their spaces in line with new health and safety regulations. 

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A virtual tour of Jakarta, the big melting pot of cultures

The guide explained how Jakarta was a melting pot of many cultures.

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Five Jakarta museums reopen to public

Five museums under the Education and Culture Ministry in Jakarta have started welcoming visitors again.

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Hong Kong Tiananmen museum turns to digitalization after new law

A Hong Kong museum chronicling the crackdown by Chinese troops on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square is raising funds to digitalize its collection as concerns over a new national security law create uncertainty over its future.

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Virtual fashion exhibition aims to 'hack' boundaries

The exhibition is about exceeding one's limit and turning problems into strengths.

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Teater Koma's 'Sampek Engtay' rescheduled to 2021

“Considering the current situation, we’d like to apologize that our performance has had to be postponed,” said Teater Koma’s manager, Ratna Riantiarno, on the troupe’s Instagram account.

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'Dream Big' from home: Christie's exhibits monumental sculpture online

Despite current travel restrictions, art lovers can discover more than 50 monumental sculptures scattered around the globe in Christie's new selling exhibition.

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In Lebanon, single-concert festival serenades empty ruins

A philharmonic orchestra performed to spectator-free Roman ruins in east Lebanon Sunday, after a top summer festival downsized to a single concert in a year of economic meltdown and pandemic.

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Russian church leader says calls to turn Hagia Sophia into mosque threaten Christianity

Patriarch Kirill, the leader of Russia's Orthodox Church, said on Monday that calls to convert Istanbul's Hagia Sophia into a mosque posed a threat to Christianity.

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Britain to give $2 billion to virus-hit culture sector

Britain will spend nearly $2 billion to help theaters, art galleries and other cultural institutions survive the coronavirus crisis.

4 years ago
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Turner Prize 2020 awards ten British artists with £10,000 grants

While this year's Turner Prize was canceled in May in reaction to the pandemic, Tate Britain announced that it will be splitting a £100,000 ($123,000) fund for the prestigious award into ten Turner Bursaries.

4 years ago
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In Canada, art lovers head to drive-in for safe Van Gogh show

While some museums have had to cancel or postpone long-planned exhibits because of the coronavirus, organizers of a Van Gogh show in Toronto had a novel idea: offering art lovers a drive-in option.

4 years ago
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Fans gather for final showings at Thailand's much-loved La Scala theater

Donning masks and observing social-distancing practices, movie and theater fans on Saturday bid a final farewell to Thailand's La Scala theater in Bangkok, which is set to close its doors in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Denmark's Little Mermaid vandalized

The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, the city's most famous monument, was vandalized Friday but police and commentators were puzzled as to who might have done it and what their message really is.

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Turkey's Erdogan rejects criticism over Hagia Sophia landmark

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday rejected criticism over his willingness to convert Istanbul's famed Hagia Sophia landmark into a mosque despite international and domestic concern.

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New York graffiti artists showcased in French chateau

When New York graffiti artists spray painted their colorful and subversive work on subways in the 1980s, it was an illegal activity. Three decades later, their work is on show in sixteenth century manor in Marseille.

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More scarce than opening-night tickets: Insurance to back Broadway shows

As they reel from canceled productions and shuttered theaters, the shows that give Broadway its bright lights and draw millions of tourists to New York are facing a new obstacle to reopening: lack of pandemic insurance.

4 years ago
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Uffizi masterpieces show Black culture's role in the Renaissance

Italy's Uffizi gallery said on Thursday it was planning to pick out nine of its masterpieces for a project to highlight the part that Black people and culture played in the Renaissance.

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Paris show relives Pompeii's final horrifying hours

It is the most explosive Paris exhibition of the summer -- Mount Vesuvius erupting several times a day in a new immersive 3D show which opens Wednesday in the Grand Palais.

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Ancient Australian Aboriginal sites discovered underwater

Archaeologists have for the first time found Aboriginal artifacts on the seabed off Australia, opening a door to the discovery of ancient settlements flooded since the last ice age, they reported Thursday.   

4 years ago
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Auschwitz museum reopens to visitors after lockdown

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum reopened to the public on Wednesday after nearly four months under a coronavirus lockdown that forced it to appeal for funding as revenues from visitors dried up.

4 years ago
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From wreckage of heritage in Phrae rises new hope for Thai conservation

Torn down despite its 127-year history, Phrae province’s historic Bombay Burmah Trading Co building may be gone for now. But hope is growing that it will be restored to its colonial-era glory. 

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Museum or mosque? Top Turkey court to rule on Hagia Sophia

Turkey's top court will deliver a critical verdict Thursday on whether Istanbul's emblematic landmark and former church Hagia Sophia can be redesignated as a mosque, a ruling which could inflame tensions with the West.

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UK's National Gallery to reopen after virus lockdown

Britain's National Gallery said it would reopen next week after being closed for more than three months due to the coronavirus outbreak.

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Francis Bacon triptych sells for $84 million at online auction

A triptych by Francis Bacon fetched $84.6 million on Monday at a Sotheby's auction held without an audience and live-streamed to bidders worldwide in a first for the company forced to adapt its big events during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Eight new auction records set during Sotheby's marathon virtual sale

The unprecedented series of three auctions, conducted remotely by auctioneer Oliver Baker in London, generated an impressive total of $363.2 million on June 29.

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