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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Tapestry's planned expansion in China is unusual, both for the company's willingness to tap lower-tier cities where most Western competitors are reluctant to tread.

An Argentine artist has painted a giant mural of late soccer legend Diego Maradona in Buenos Aires to commemorate what would have been the World Cup winner's 62nd birthday at the end of October.

Amateur Ukrainian artists Varvara Hamianin and Vitalii Korzenenko raise awareness about the plight of their country’s women and children after Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February.

The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF) has become one of the most popular fixtures on Indonesia’s cultural calendar. This year, the festival will be held from Oct. 27 to 30, bringing together more than 150 writers, activists, artists and performers.

Swiss author Kim de l'Horizon shaved their head on stage after winning the prestigious German Book Prize on Monday in a show of solidarity with the women protesting in Iran.

Authorities in northern Iraq on Sunday unveiled an "archaeological park" of 2,700-year-old carvings from the rule of the Assyrians, showing kings praying to the gods.

In its current exhibition, Jakarta's Rachel Gallery sought to introduce the increasingly rare art of drawings and etchings to a new generation of Indonesian artists and art enthusiasts.

With the number of Hollywood musical adaptations popular with local film fans, the question is: Where are Indonesia’s musicals?

Fifty years on from Pablo Picasso's death -- and five years after the #MeToo movement started highlighting celebrities' abuse of women -- a new exhibition in Paris focuses on one of the early partners of the controversial artist.

Syria on Wednesday revealed a remarkably intact 1,600-year-old Roman-era mosaic including depictions of warriors in the Trojan War, with authorities hailing it as one of the "rarest" found.

In the past two years, arak Bali has grown from a drink with a sinister reputation to an acclaimed product gifted to foreign dignitaries. What’s the story?

When yoga instructor Nada took up pole dancing, the backlash in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia was both harsh and quick, and she has struggled to overcome the fallout ever since.

What might appear to be a bouncy game of giant-sized billiards is actually the recreation of a playful 1970s art installation, on display at a museum on the outskirts of Copenhagen.

He knocked two busts off their pedestals in the museums' Chiaramonti hall, which houses more than 1,000 pieces and is one of the most important collections of Roman portrait busts.

Baraye, the Persian word "For" or "Because", is composed of tweets about the protests and highlights longings people have for things lacking in sanctions-hit Iran, where many complain of hardship caused by economic mismanagement.

The material is composed of cigarette stubs, separated into fibres and cleaned and bleached after being gathered from the city streets where they had been discarded along with millions of others.

Australia returned hundreds of artifacts from the Chinese trade ship Tek Sing to Indonesia 200 years after the vessel sank off the archipelago’s Bangka-Belitung islands with the loss of more than 1,600 lives and a cargo of nearly 350,000 porcelain pieces.

Robots and superheroes take a stand in Jakarta's Astra Roma Ballet performance.