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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. ...

1 month ago
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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. ...

1 month ago

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The art of collaboration: Irene Febry invites us to look closer

Emerging Indonesian artist Irene Febry’s collaborations with multidisciplined creatives and the community construct beautifully layered collages that reflect our natural environment.

4 years ago
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The top picks from Cannes 2021

Here are some of the movies making "le buzz", and what some of the world's top cinephiles thought about them.

4 years ago
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Eiffel Tower to reopen after record nine-month closure

The lifts of the "Iron Lady" are set to whir back into life, transporting tourists to its 300-metre (1,000-foot) summit, ending a long period of inactivity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

4 years ago
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Japan forest lights up in digital art show

The exhibition, which opens on Friday and runs until November 7, is in a park whose boundaries blend into an ancient forest in the Saga region near Nagasaki.

4 years ago
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Arc de Triomphe to be wrapped in fabric to Christo's design

Work is to begin Friday on wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in silvery-blue fabric as a posthumous tribute to the artist Christo who had dreamt of the project for decades.

4 years ago
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Kissing, spitting and puking: The highs and lows of Cannes

With fewer parties, lots of masks and stars having to regularly fill tubes with spit for Covid tests, the 74th edition of the Cannes film festival has been less glamorous than normal. 

4 years ago
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Shakespeare company opens garden theatre by River Avon

Based in playwright William Shakespeare's birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon, the company, known as the RSC, built the Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Garden Theatre outside its Swan Theatre by the River Avon.

4 years ago
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'Jerusalema' hit-maker says Africa now hitting its stride

"Now is the time for Africa to shine, to present our culture to the world." 

4 years ago
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Igniting Balinese cultural memory with the Afghan box camera

Black and white photographs are having a resurgence amid the sea of Balinese imagery circulating on the internet. Compelling pictures of yesteryear, describing the people and landscape, ignite nostalgia.

4 years ago
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Frida Kahlo exhibition brings her work alive

With larger-than-life projections of her work, music and journal extracts, a new exhibition aims to bring Mexican surrealist Frida Kahlo's paintings to life to mark the 114th anniversary of her birth.

4 years ago
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Ancient bone carving could change the way we think about Neanderthals

The engraving, discovered at a German cave where Neanderthals lived tens of thousands of years ago, has no obvious utility according to researchers who say the artifact sheds new light on the ill-fated species' capacity for creativity.

4 years ago
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Multi-story mural for hometown hero Messi

"From another galaxy... and from my neighborhood," declares a freshly painted mural of Lionel Messi in the Argentinian town where he was born 34 years ago.

4 years ago
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In Denmark, grazing is alive with the sound of music

The cows were first introduced to the classical repertoire through loudspeakers installed in their barn in the winter, but it quickly seemed to strike a chord with the bovine audience.

4 years ago
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Delia Fiallo, "mother of the telenovela," dies in Miami

Adored by her fans, Fiallo left her mark on US Hispanic popular culture in the second half of the 20th century. She started her career in Cuba in 1950 with radio soap operas before writing her first television screenplay in 1957. 

4 years ago
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Picasso painting found in Greek gorge years after heist

A Picasso painting which personally donated by the Spanish master to the Greek people had recovered almost a decade after it was stolen alongside two other artworks in an audacious heist at the National Gallery.

4 years ago
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From tattoos to tokens at Tokyo's first crypto art show

Tokyo tattoo artist Ichi Hatano's usual business has dwindled during the pandemic, but now he's keen to mine a new stream of income at Japan's first crypto art exhibition.

4 years ago
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Dutch to check artwork stolen by Nazis for restitution

A total of 3,040 objects from the collection of cultural works returned to the country after the war will be examined.

4 years ago
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David Bowie painting bought for $4 sold at auction for nearly $90,000

Auctioneer Rob Cowley said a dozen bidders vied for the computer and acrylic collage on canvas that is part of the so-called D Head series of portraits of the Ziggy Stardust rocker himself, his friends, and others that he painted between 1995 and 1997.

4 years ago
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Srihadi Soedarsono paints Jakarta in its past, present and future glory

A 2-by-4 meter oil on canvas is painted in the unique Wayang Beber style, portraying Jakarta in different eras by vivid colors and important landmarks.

4 years ago
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Futuristic Gehry tower opens in World Heritage Arles

The tower, which opens to the public on Saturday, is the flagship attraction of a new "creative campus" conceived by the Swiss Luma arts foundation that wants to offer artists a space to create, collaborate and showcase their work.

4 years ago
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David Bowie painting bought for $4 sold at auction for nearly $90,000

A painting by British pop icon David Bowie recently discovered and purchased for about $4 at a Canadian store that resells donated goods, has been sold at auction in Toronto for nearly $90,000 (Can$108,120), the auction house said Friday.

4 years ago
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First oaks felled for Notre Dame cathedral rebuild

Experts have been scouring forests across France to select 1,000 developed oaks with long, straight trunks that can be used in the spire and roof of the Gothic cathedral, which was ravaged by fire in April 2019. 

4 years ago
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Churchill painting from Onassis superyacht sells for $1.85 mln

"The Moat, Breccles," a signed 1921 oil landscape, went for within its pre-sale estimate price of between $1.5 million and $2 million.

4 years ago
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Ancient sculptures prompt Germany to reckon with colonial past

But the 16th-18th century metal plaques and sculptures that once decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin may never see the light of day in a German museum again.

4 years ago
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'Godfather' of Tibetan rap spits karmic rhymes

In his tracksuit, silver chain and sparkling trainers, MC Tenzin would look like any other rapper if not for the backdrop of towering Himalayan peaks in his videos and rhyme-dropping about karma.

4 years ago
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Digitizing Balinese iconography into the 21st century

The 21st-century digital creative economy is the catalyst and thriving platform to propel Balinese creatives into new and growing local and international markets. Technology and the internet empower emerging artists, pushing their cultural iconography to fresh heights. New domestic and foreign audiences are embracing it.

4 years ago
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Waxing lyrical: Madame Tussauds to open museum in Dubai

Madame Tussauds will open its first outpost in the Arab world in Dubai later this year.

4 years ago
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David Bowie painting from donation bin up for auction

A painting by British pop icon David Bowie recently discovered at a Canadian store that resells donated goods had frantic bidders lining up for a chance to own it.

4 years ago
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Nearly 800 archeological finds stolen from Italy returned

The nearly 800 pieces "of exceptional rarity and inestimable value", including stelae, amphorae and other works, came from clandestine excavations in Apulia in Italy's southeastern tip, according to the Carabinieri police in charge of cultural heritage.

4 years ago
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New museum gingerly explores German wartime suffering

The new museum dedicated to the long-silenced trauma of ethnic Germans forced to flee eastern Europe at the end of World War II.

4 years ago
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