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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.

3 days ago
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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. ...

2 weeks ago

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How film and TV can help the climate change battle

Fictional films and TV have immense power to shift attitudes on political issues, yet they remain little-used in debates over climate change.

3 years ago
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'More to offer' than war: Ukraine works on display at Madrid museum

Dozens of modern artworks removed from Kyiv to protect them from Russian strikes that have already done huge damage to Ukraine's cultural heritage will go on display at a Madrid museum on Tuesday.

3 years ago
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Pentimento merges classical western painting with contemporary methods

Dutch artist Noella Roos exhibits an authoritative body of works painted over 10 years in Bali. Pentimento invites the audience to learn about Western painting by exploring the human form.

3 years ago
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Animal bones, ancient Romans' snack food found in Colosseum

Other discoveries include more than 50 bronze coins from the late Roman period as well as a silver coin from around 170-171 AD to commemorate 10 years of rule of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. 

3 years ago
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Rethinking the past and present to reassess the future

Indonesian contemporary artists scrutinize the country's present and future through their work in the Fragmenting Today, Reshaping Tomorrow exhibition.

3 years ago
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Art or torture? France debates banning bullfighting

Corrida in which the animal usually ends up killed by a sword thrust by a matador in shining costume, is for supporters an age-old tradition to be preserved, for critics a cruel ritual that has no place in modern society.

3 years ago
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Will Indonesian ethnic music survive modern times?

The government, ethnic music groups and other stakeholders join in to promote Indonesian ethnic music. 

3 years ago
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Mexico weaves fashion policy to help indigenous communities

Clothing designers inspired by traditional Mexican motifs, embroidery and colors are exhibiting their work at a fashion fair in Mexico City promoted by the government to support marginalized indigenous communities.

3 years ago
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Warhol nephew to auction two works by pop artist

Andy Warhol's nephew will put two works by his late pop artist uncle on the market for the first time Tuesday in New York.

3 years ago
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Exhibition marks Indonesian literary giant Chairil Anwar’s centennial

Famed Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar continues to loom large in the country’s literary scene, as seen in a centennial exhibition at South Jakarta’s Salihara Arts Center, which celebrated his life and work.

3 years ago
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Banned from education, ‘idle’ Afghan girls are married off

Under Taliban rule, teenage girls in Afghanistan are banned from schools, prompting parents to marry them off to much older men.

3 years ago
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Activists try to glue themselves to Munch’s ‘Stream’

Climate activists tried to glue themselves to Edvard Munch's masterpiece The Scream in Oslo on Friday to protest against Norway's oil industry, but guards intervened and the artwork was undamaged, police said.

3 years ago
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DenPasar 2022 It's About TIME! focuses on emerging curators

A dynamic new initiative envisions a sustainable art ecosystem in Bali.

3 years ago
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Paul Allen's art collection tops $1 billion at Christie's

Five paintings entered the exclusive club of works of art sold for more than $100 million at auction, the New York auction house said, in a sign that the art market continues to grow despite economic uncertainties related to the war in Ukraine and inflation.

3 years ago
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Erasmus Huis exhibition shows how bound we are to technology

Many believe that the digital world has us estranged from the real world. But is it true? These days, isn't the digital world also the “real world"? We are never truly separated from the Internet, after all.

3 years ago
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Climate activists glue themselves to Warhol artwork in Australian capital

Climate protesters glued themselves to an Andy Warhol painting at the National Art Gallery of Australia in Canberra on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of activist demonstrations in art galleries around the world.

3 years ago
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Rasasastra Union Art Festival celebrates mashing different disciplines

The Rasasastra artistic collective is seeking to take the creative process to new heights by engaging budding avant-garde artists and the public alike through the Union Art Festival, its collaboration with the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival.

3 years ago
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Artwork long thought a copy revealed as real Rembrandt

Art experts in the Netherlands unveiled an oil sketch by the famous Dutch master Rembrandt after it languished for a century in a forgotten corner of a museum, believed to be an imitation.

3 years ago
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Netherlands jails activists who targeted Vermeer masterpiece

A Dutch court on Wednesday sentenced two climate activists to two months in jail, one of them suspended, for targeting Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, news agency ANP said.

3 years ago
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Rehab for Egypt's 'Britney' stirs talk on women's rights

In past weeks, the story of an Egyptian pop star admitted into a rehabilitation facility has spilled beyond celebrity gossip, and sparked new debate on women's rights in the conservative country.

3 years ago
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Artists highlight the aesthetics of sustainability

Indonesian artists share their aesthetic take on sustainability in Distrik Seni X, an art space at Sarinah, Jakarta’s oldest and most iconic mall.

3 years ago
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Timeless Creativity combines art and furniture in an avant-garde exhibition

Murai Art Projects presents a unique exhibition that combines artistic flair and functional furniture designs. 

3 years ago
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Mondrian painting hanging upside down for 77 years

A large retrospective of the avant garde artist's work went on display Saturday at the Kunstsammlung museum in Dusseldorf, and one of the pieces on show is "New York City 1", painted in 1941.

3 years ago
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‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ targeted by climate activists

Climate activists glued themselves to Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring at a Dutch museum on Thursday in the latest stunt targeting famous artworks, but the painting was undamaged.

3 years ago
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Encountering Le Corbusier: A dialogue with modern architecture’s divisive figure

Bandung's Selasar Sunaryo Art Space and Jakarta's Kopi Manyar hosts a tribute introductory exhibition to Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier through recreated architectural models of his works.

3 years ago
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Ancient Maya city in Mexico may rank as most crowded, new data shows

A laser-powered study of the sprawling metropolis of Calakmul in southern Mexico offers tantalizing new evidence that it may have been the most crowded ancient Maya urban center during the civilization's classical peak some 1,300 years ago.

3 years ago
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Homecoming: Kins return to Lasem to preserve 'batik tiga negeri'

Batik artisans in Lasem, Central Java, strive to continue their family businesses and keep traditional legacies alive.

3 years ago
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Painter Pierre Soulages, French master of black, dies at 102

French abstract artist Pierre Soulages, who has died aged 102, was the Henry Ford of painting: For him there was just one color, black, and he spent a lifetime exploring the light within it.

3 years ago
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Shadow puppet enthusiasts hope robotics can save ancient art

Malaysian college lecturer Ahnaf Hakimi Ahmad hopes to save the ancient tradition of shadow puppetry using 3D-printed figures controlled by robotics instead of people.

3 years ago
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Warna Bali: Landmark exhibit traces Balinese color philosophy

Warna Bali is a landmark exhibit that takes visitors on a visual experience of traditional Balinese color philosophy through contemporary art.

3 years ago

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