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Mandate, mysticism and the theater of Indonesian power

While Javanese belief continues to shape the symbolism of Indonesian leadership, critics argue its deeper demands for restraint and moral balance are fading from political life.

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Art Jakarta Papers reframes a familiar medium

Bringing focus to artworks made on and of paper, the exhibition reveals how artists continue to push the expressive limits of the humble, age-old material in an increasingly digital world. ...

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Then and Now: Revelations after two decades

An exhibition in Jakarta reunites 11 artists first championed in the late 2000s, tracing how their ideas, materials and methods have evolved amid shifting cultural and technological landscapes. ...

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Workers' struggle: A painting by Remy Sylado titled "Senasib" depicts Indonesian female workers and is displayed at Taman Ismail Marzuki in Central Jakarta (JP/Radhiyya Indra).
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Taman Ismail Marzuki exhibition raises funds for sick Indonesian literary figures

Twenty artists held an art exhibition to help two of Indonesia’s biggest literary figures who are currently suffering from illnesses.

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Check-up: A health worker tends to a patient during a medical check-up at a health center in Sakoungou in the Central African Republic on March 11.
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Central Africa’s Aka Pygmies struggle with stigma and poverty

In Central Africa, indigenous people gain access to health but deforestation threatens their traditions.

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Superhero puppets: Two puppet characters battle each other in a scene that uses real fire as a special effect on Feb. 18, during a demonstration at the filming studio of Pili International Multimedia 8450.TWO in Yunlin, Taiwan. Pili has turned to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to generate new revenue while keeping the traditional glove puppets of Taiwanese culture relevant among today’s audience.
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Taiwan puppeteers look to NFTs to keep their art alive

A group of Taiwanese puppeteers are looking to use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to help bring their traditional art form into the modern era and keep it relevant for a new audience.

3 years ago
Made Kuti sings during a rehearsal session with his band 'The Movement' at the New Africa Shrine in Ikeja, Lagos, on January 19, 2022.
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Kuti family keeps up Fela's Afrobeat legacy

Nearly 25 years after the death of Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti, his son Femi and grandson Made are taking his Afrobeat sound to the United States.

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Profane: Barga, one half of the duo, plays the gender – Balinese gamelan instrument more at home in religious ceremonies and royal rituals than underground raves (Courtesy of Kadapat)
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Kadapat is Bali’s best hidden musical treasure

Uncompromising, sacrilegious, and intense – Kadapat is one of the best hidden talents in Bali’s promising music scene.

3 years ago
A security guard stands next to Jeff Koons' 'Rabbit' from the Masterpieces from The Collection of S.I. Newhouse at Christie's New York press preview on May 3, 2019 as part of Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale.
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Koons on the Moon sculptures to be placed on lunar surface

Koons, one of the most celebrated and expensive living artists, is famed for kitsch pieces such as "Ballon Dog" and "Rabbit," and his work is exhibited in galleries around the world.

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A photograph taken on March 2, 2022 shows the statue of French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader Jean Sylvain Bailly at the Jeu de Paume hall in Versailles, near Paris.
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Versailles reopens room where French democracy was founded

The Palace of Versailles is reopening the site of an often-overlooked part of its history on Friday with a fully restored Jeu de Paume Room that hosted the founding of French democracy.

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Hollywood execs stay silent on Will Smith Oscar outburst

The lack of a reaction is a testament to Smith's broad popularity in Hollywood, and his powerful box office cachet, according to some observers.

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His muse: Bandung-based Riandy Karuniawan has been into Japanese fantasy manga, surrealism and the psychology of human minds since high school. (Courtesy of Riandy Karuniawan)
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Tapping into the unconscious: Riandy Karuniawan’s epic sci-fi illustrations

Combining his love for Japanese manga, surrealism and science fiction, Bandung-based artist Riandy Karuniawan has created a style of illustration that is both psychedelic and thought-provoking. 

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Performers present a medley of traditional dances during an event by the Indonesian Cultural Heritage (WBI) Foundation on March 23, 2022, which launched a series of campaigns promoting Indonesia's diverse traditional cultures
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Heritage foundation promotes traditional attire among young Indonesians

A new foundation has launched an inaugural campaign urging young Indonesians to adopt the traditional dress of the country's diverse cultural heritage.

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Musicians play for people living in a metro station used as a bomb shelter in Kharkiv on March 26, 2022, during Russia's military invasion launched on Ukraine.
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Music plays on in Kharkiv under Russia bombardment

Three violinists, a cellist and a bass player delighted an audience of a few dozen people for half an hour in one of the largest subway stations in Ukraine's second city, close to the Russian border.

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Live music: Angel in Merry, one of the local performances, at Rempah Gunung Vol. 2. (Rempah Gunung/Imanuel Agung Bolaman)
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Rempah Gunung celebrates independent music scene in Ambon

A group of youngsters from Ambon, Maluku set up a concert series aimed at celebrating the island’s growing independent music system.

3 years ago
United: Russian artist Pokras Lampas and Ukrainian Alex Shtefan pose with one of nine of Pokras' calligraphy pieces on the rooftop of Alex's villas in Bali on March 16.
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Russian artist and Ukrainian in Bali collaborate on message of unity

A Russian artist and a Ukrainian owner of a villa complex on the Indonesian resort island of Bali have come together to promote peace and unity through a giant work of art. 

3 years ago
Legendary artwork: Andy Warhol’s 1964 Shot Sage Blue Marilyn is displayed during a press preview on Monday in New York, the United States.
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Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portrait expected to fetch $200 million at auction

Andy Warhol's iconic sage-blue background portrait of Marilyn Monroe has been tipped to sell for a record-breaking US$200 million at auction in the spring, Christie's announced on Monday.

3 years ago
Flow of knowledge: "Tumpengan Instinct", an installation art by Manda Selena, focuses on the maternal plight and power to pass down their knowledge, particularly cultural wisdom, to their children in this age of modernity. (JP/Richard Horstman)
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‘Tumpengan Instinct’: Articulating mothers' massive duty to pass on wisdom

By intersecting political intrigue with the obligation of transferring cultural knowledge to future generations, artist Manda Selena explores identity and the creative power and plight of motherhood in the modern age.

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Get creative: Wall murals painted on the pillars of a flyover by transgender artists from the Aravani Art Project are pictured on Feb. 22 in Mumbai, India.
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Transgender outcasts turn artists in India

On a giant flyover in the sprawling Indian metropolis of Mumbai, a transgender art collective is trying to change attitudes as radically as it transforms the concrete pillars into brightly colored murals.

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Historical: 'Sukarno Reading the Text of the Proclamation' by Soemarto Frans Mendur. (Courtesy of The Netherlands Institute for Military History)
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Shedding new light on Indonesia’s war of independence

An exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijkmuseum uses posters, personal belongings and other objects exhibited for the first time to put a human face on Indonesia’s war of independence against the Dutch which lasted from 1945 to 1949.

3 years ago
A girl walks at the Village-Opera school, designed by Architect Diebedo Francis Kere, in Laongo, on March 16, 2022.
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Burkina's 'Opera Village' by its groundbreaking architect

With its imposing, angular proportions made out of clay, the Opera Village cultural and educational project, designed by Burkina Faso-born architect Francis Kere, blends into the landscape.

3 years ago
A visitor views drawings by (From L) Belgian artist Henri Michaux (1944), Italian Baroque painter Simone Cantarini (1644-1648) and Italian Renaissance artist Stefano Della Bella (1648) at the exhibition 'Scribbling and Doodling: From Leonardo da Vinci to Cy Twombly' on March 17, 2022 at the Villa Medici, The French Academy in Rome.
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From Da Vinci to Picasso, doodles on display in Rome

Hidden on the backs of canvases, doodles have allowed artists down the ages, from Michelangelo to Picasso, to test, explore and unleash their creativity.

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The power of music: A Ukrainian serviceman plays the violin in the dugout of a position on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists, not far from Gorlivka, in the Donetsk region, on Dec. 22, 2020.
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Violin becomes ‘weapon of resistance’ in Ukraine shelters

From her shelter in Ukraine's second city Kharkiv, Vera Lytovchenko has become a social media sensation with her violin performances that help her forget the war, if only for a few minutes. 

3 years ago
Deirdre Betson, her son Alex with Paula and Blanca, Garcia, and Alfie, an Irish guide dogs for the blind puppy in training, enjoy the annual St Patrick's Day parade in Dublin, Ireland on March 17, 2022.
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St Patrick's Day parades return to Ireland after Covid hiatus

Hundreds of thousands of Irish and international visitors flocked to Ireland for St Patrick's Day festivities after a two-year halt due to coronavirus.

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Inspiration: Mambesak performs in 1981. Arnold Ap (center) was the band’s leader and inspiration. (Personal collection/Courtesy of Ayos Purwoaji)
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'Twenties': 20 Indonesian heroes you should know but probably haven't heard of

‘Twenties’ is a new column in which we give our top 20 list of anything and everything of interest, from food and history to pop culture and lifestyle — and more.

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Widows smeared with Gulal (colour powder) dance as they participate in Holi celebrations, the Hindu spring festival of colours, at a temple in Vrindavan on March 15, 2022.
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Widows brighten the day as India celebrates Holi

India's colourful festivities to mark Holi are underway, including in a town usually associated with grief as a so-called "city of widows".

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Archive exhibition: “The Phantasmagoria of Science and Myth” exhibition showcases the archives of Heri Dono, which he has been compiling since the 1980s. (JP/A.Kurniawan Ulung)
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Decades on, Heri Dono continues to uphold his ideals through his art

For renowned artist Heri Dono, the archives of materials related to his work are as valuable as the works themselves. 

3 years ago
This photo taken on March 11, 2022 shows Chinese artist Huang Rui posing with his artwork 'Absence of Black Moon' during a 'Together for Peace' event at the Poland embassy in Beijing.
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Chinese artist unveils painting for Ukraine, 'which has already won'

China has so far refused to condemn its ally Russia's war, but Chinese painter Huang Rui is convinced that Ukraine has already won.

4 years ago
Heritage fabric: A weaver uses a handloom to make traditional muslin cloth at the Dhakai Muslin Project facility in Narayanganj on Jan. 8.
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‘Woven air’: Bangladesh revives elite forgotten fabric

With wooden spinning wheels and hand-drawn looms, Bangladesh is painstakingly resurrecting a fabric once worn by Marie Antoinette and Jane Austen but long thought forever lost to history.

4 years ago
Through her art: The "Timur Merah Project: Tales of Nowhere", solo exhibition of Citra Sasmita at Museum Macan Jakarta 2020. Citra Sasmita draws Tantri stories, an old Balinese fable to voice feminism. (Courtesy of Citra Sasmita)
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Artist Citra Sasmita “hacks” patriarchal Balinese traditions

Growing up in a less privileged family from a low caste in Bali and being discriminated against as a woman, Citra Sasmita brings forth equality issues in her artworks.

4 years ago
A handout picture released by the Iraqi Prime Minister's Media Office on March 6, 2022 shows Premier Mustafa al-Kadhemi (C) inaugurating the renovated National Museum as it reopens following a 3-year closure.
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Iraq's National Museum reopens after three-year closure

Iraq's National Museum reopened Monday to visitors after a three-year closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic and political unrest.

4 years ago
A room tour: A look inside the first prototype project created by Project Etere. (Courtesy of Project Etere & Evelyn Pritt)
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PROJECT ETERE: breathing new life into Bali’s ghost buildings

An artist creates art out of abandoned buildings.

4 years ago
Why did the bird cross the road? : A photo of a Javan myna crossing the street displayed in the exhibition hall of Erasmus Huis Jakarta. (JP/Sylviana Hamdani)
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Javan myna: A story of birds on the run

Dutch-Spanish photographer Anaïs López celebrates an Indonesian bird in her latest work

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