The batik-making environment in remote desert communities in Australia is often the chaotic outdoors, where children and dogs run about and the weather can range from freezing cold to above 40 degrees Celsius.

The Japanese artist is collaborating with e-commerce platform NTWRK for a limited-edition series of prints inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement.

A miniature bird sculpted out of burnt bone in China around 13,500 years ago is the oldest known figurine from East Asia, according to researchers who discovered it in a refuse heap near an archaeological site.

Italian police said Wednesday they had retrieved a work by famed street artist Banksy commemorating the victims of the November 2015 Paris terror attacks stolen from the Bataclan concert hall.

Claude Monet's gardens, the inspiration for his famous "Water Lilies" paintings, reopened to the public on Monday in Giverny, Normandy, as France emerges from three months of lockdown.

The toppling of a statue of a 17th century slave trader in the English port city of Bristol was hailed by some as a long-overdue reckoning with Britain's imperialist past and denounced by others as a criminal act.

Viola Davis, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Cynthia Erivo joined some 300 actors and playwrights on Tuesday in decrying racism in the US theater world, saying it had exploited, excluded and diminished people of color.

The Salzburg Festival of music and drama will go ahead in August, organizers said Tuesday -- but with special measures in place to meet the threat of the coronavirus.

After months of lying silent because of the coronavirus pandemic, Vienna's illustrious classical music venues are throwing open their doors -- but their vast halls can now play host to only 100 audience members at a time.

A huge mural by French street art star JR was unveiled in Paris on Tuesday paying tribute to George Floyd and Adama Traore, a young black man who died in police custody in France.

The pandemic has thrown much of the world into disarray, including the art world, putting pressure on ruangrupa art collective in its historic role of curating the upcoming documenta.  

The massive disruption caused in the art and creative sector of the Indonesian economy by global governmental measures to limit the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was the subject of a recent webinar.

The National Library of Israel is offering free digital access to more than 2,500 rare books and manuscripts from its world-renowned collection.

The 32nd edition of the Paris Biennale has been postponed to September 2021 in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.

One of the last self-portraits by Rembrandt remaining in private hands is to go on sale next month with a guide price of £12-16 million ($15-20 million, 13-18 million euros), Sotheby's said on Monday.

Iranian photographer Gohar Dashti has created a body of work that explores the relationship between nature, human migration and the ripple effects of conflict and social upheaval.

Workers at the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday began the delicate task of removing tons of metal scaffolding that melted together during the fire that destroyed the monument's roof and spire last year, an AFP journalist at the scene said.

Art Basel, the premier art fair that brings together the most prominent artists and galleries from all over the world, is canceled for 2020. The announcement was made via their official website and on Instagram.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced the launch of a new department to support the Korean Wave’s further expansion on Tuesday.

Love letters between the ill-fated French queen Marie-Antoinette and her lover, which contain key passages rendered illegible by censor marks, have been deciphered using new techniques.

Reclusive British street artist Banksy published a new artwork online on Saturday which depicts the United States flag being set alight by a candle that forms part of a memorial to an anonymous, black, silhouetted figure.

A moment of almost-total silence contemplating Velazquez's "Las Meninas" is the rare opportunity offered by Madrid's Prado museum as it reopens its doors to a handful of visitors Saturday after a three-month closure. 

In El-Arish, the provincial capital of Egypt's North Sinai, a group of women sew colorful Bedouin designs on masks to combat coronavirus, as an insurgency simmers in their restive region.

An art gallery in Paris has sought inspiration in ancient China to help it enforce social distancing, by providing hats with winged extensions for visitors.

The Japanese parliament enacted Friday a revised anti-online piracy law to tighten copyright control, banning illicit downloading of manga, magazines and academic texts, in addition to music and videos that were already covered by the existing legislation.

Several dozen artists spray-painted murals and slogans on boarded-up businesses in Oakland, California, this week in support of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd, an unarmed black man who was killed by a white policeman.

The renowned Vienna State Opera will reopen its doors from Monday -- with 100 guests per show in line with anti-coronavirus government guidelines, the opera house announced Wednesday.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum was forced to launch an appeal for funding on Wednesday after two months under a coronavirus lockdown that saw revenue from visitors dry up.

Even after his death, artist Christo's dream project of wrapping up Paris' Arc de Triomphe in silvery-blue recyclable fabric will go ahead next year in line with his wishes, organizers said on Tuesday.

Loneliness and isolation are constant for those suffering from mental disabilities, and the strict lockdown measures only impound upon this situation.