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.

Bentara Budaya commemorated its 40th anniversary with notable guests and a series of cultural and art events.

Artificial Intelligence powering 3D printing technology offers vast new horizons for artistic experimentation. 

French fashion house Yves Saint Laurent took to an open-air runway facing the glowing Eiffel Tower to showcase designer Anthony Vaccarello's summer collection of sleek eveningwear.

Tucked away in the corridors of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia, the revamped Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Museum, while still closed to the public, is revealing some newly declassified artifacts from the United States spy agency's most storied operations since its founding 75 years ago.

The annual World Press Photo (WPP) exhibition in Jakarta’s Erasmus Huis cultural center highlights various crises of our times in vivid colors.

From video mapping to theatrical showings, artists across disciplines reinterpret Indonesia’s culture at the country’s biggest art exhibition in Magelang, Central Java.

The coronavirus has battered live performances around the world, especially in the first 18 months of the pandemic, but nowhere has that hardship lasted longer than in Hong Kong.

In the actor's first-ever public art exhibition, Brad Pitt has unveiled his sculptures in a lakeside art museum in Finland, the gallery said on Monday.

The traveling South Korean band of performers showcased their country’s traditional dances and songs in front of Indonesian and Korean audiences.

Birdsong, insects chirping, the sound of wind brushing through tall grass or over sand dunes—all these form part of what Qatar-based sound artist Guillaume Rousere calls his "sound art". 

A giant refugee girl puppet, known as "Little Amal," walked around New York City's Times Square on Friday, raising awareness of the plight of displaced children seeking safety across borders.

During a crisis, human ingenuity comes to the fore. Kelompok Seni Gotong Royong, a new Balinese art collective adopting cultural philosophies began in 2020 in response to the global economic downturn resulting from the pandemic. Its initial objective was to feed the families of the group’s members. This vision has evolved into community art and cultural education and sharing with those in need.