Tracing its beginning to the COVID-era lockdowns, the fourth installment of Art Jakarta's "garden edition" exudes freshness and renewal through crafts, sculptures and innovative pieces.
5 days agoNow despite that long journey and his 81 years of age, the Ethiopian music legend cannot even "think about retirement".
1 week agoThis year’s exhibition features eight works by six Irish artists: Aaron Sunderland Carey, Electronic Sheep (Brenda Aherne and Helen Delany), Isobel McCarthy, Mary Sullivan and Olivia Normile.
2 weeks agoFor the past several months, roads connecting settlements in Cemarajaya village, Karawang, West Java, have been severely damaged by coastal erosion, which has also caused many houses in Cemarajaya’s coastal communities to collapse.
1 year agoAfter months of woodshedding, the band gathered enough materials that they would use to join a recording session at Irama Records studio in Menteng, Central Jakarta, supervised and engineered directly by founder of the legendary label, Suyoso "Mas Yos" Karsono.
1 year agoErasmus Huis Jakarta hosts an exhibition that reimagines litter as artworks and inspires people to reconsider how they treat their garbage.
1 year agoThe festival runs from June 30 to Aug. 27 with the theme “Motif: Lamaran” (Motif: Proposal).
1 year agoIn the last few years, a new term has cropped up among urbanites that highlights the need for a private space that is not their home: staycation.
1 year agoThe Resonanz Children’s Choir (TRCC) took home the grand prix prize in the Leonardo Da Vinci International Choral Festival in Florence, Italy, on Friday.
1 year agoIn its nearly five centuries of history, Jakarta has evolved along with its people, from trading port to major metropolis and now the largest city in Southeast Asia.
1 year agoTime stops for no one, or so they say. For most of us, certain special places evoke a world of reminiscence, calling forth precious times in our lives. And when one of those places is removed, a part of ourselves goes away too.
1 year agoWhat is it? says John Wyse. —A nation? says Bloom. A nation is the same people living in the same place. —By God, then, says Ned, laughing, if that’s so I’m a nation for I’m living in the same place for the past five years.
1 year agoSole Indonesian and Southeast Asian representative Eunike Nugroho, a Yogyakarta-based botanical artist, has won a gold medal at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Botanical Art & Photography Show at Saatchi Gallery in London, which opened June 16.
1 year agoBuilt as a bizarre memorial to Albania's paranoid communist dictator, now a brutalist pyramid hopes to become a beacon of the Balkan country's transformation.
1 year agoBeyond artificial intelligence (AI) machine-learning inclusion from tech to finance industries, its recent progress has also given rise to more sophisticated and refined models, like voice-converting software that mimic other people’s vocals or the language processing chatbot ChatGPT.
1 year agoKicking off its revival with a festival featuring roster of chart-toppers and music legends, storied music label and recording studio Lokananta has gotten a makeover as an all-around creative economy hub.
1 year agoThe manuscripts include working drafts for "Bohemian Rhapsody" -- which Mercury initially planned to call "Mongolian Rhapsody".
1 year agoAdopting its theme from the Harry Potter saga, a North Jakarta bar charms with elixirs that could spellbind even the most earthbound Muggles in town.
1 year agoEgyptian luxury brands are harnessing traditional craftsmanship from jewellery design to carpet weaving to bring the country's ancient cultural riches to the world.
1 year agoHe goes by the pseudonym Z and hides his face when posing for photos.
1 year agoIn a moment of unity, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and Thailand have jointly nominated the kebaya for the UN's prestigious intangible cultural heritage list, with a decision expected in 2024.
1 year agoFor weeks, pundits and officials in Egypt have reacted angrily to streaming platform Netflix's decision to cast British actress Adele James in the lead role of its production "Queen Cleopatra" -- insisting the ruler had lighter skin.
1 year agoUli Artha Panggabean is a weaver of ulos, the traditional woven cloth of the Batak tribe. Her passion for the tradition goes deep.
1 year agoThe metropolis is one of the world's last remaining cities to use bamboo scaffolding in modern construction and building repair.
1 year agoArtist Mujahidin Nurrahman uses his art to explore the contradictions and paradoxes of Islam
1 year agoQueen Elizabeth II bequeathed her son an estimated £360 million ($448 million) upon her death in September last year, boosting Charles's fortune to £600 million, according to an estimate by The Times.
2 years agoThe African American cowgirl deftly zig-zags around three barrels, showing off why she is considered -- against the sport's stereotypical whiteness and masculinity -- a rising rodeo star.
2 years ago"Isekai" or "alternative world" anime covers a broad range of storylines in which a character is transported into a new life.
2 years agoThe Czech Republic’s Museum of Communism prompts the question whether Indonesia could similarly acknowledge its history’s less-glorious moments
2 years agoA viral AI-generated song imitating Drake and The Weeknd was pulled from streaming services this week, but did it actually breach copyright as claimed by record label Universal?
2 years agoAn art collaboration went literal in converting Bandung art space Selasar PAV for the Dressing Room exhibition
2 years agoNeon signs once transformed Hong Kong's oldest neighbourhoods into a kaleidoscope of luminous colour after dark, but most have now been removed.
2 years agoChina feels it has the "right to redefine the global world order", Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said ahead of his first design-focused exhibition in London.
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