The men in the audience clapped and the women ululated as the band finished singing: it would have been commonplace except the venue was in Iran and the group on stage were all women.

The Triennale Milano and Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art announced an eight-year collaboration on Wednesday, a cultural experiment both claimed had never before been undertaken. 

UOB Indonesia's Indahnya Berbagi dalam Berkarya, dari Seniman untuk Seniman (Sharing is Rewarding, from Artists for Artists) aims to support Indonesian artists, especially those living outside Java and Bali. 

When something becomes a defining moment in the zeitgeist,  arts and culture will inevitably revolve around it, especially when it is a pandemic affecting billions.

Among the festival's guests of 100 storytellers and culinary figures are the author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, Kevin Kwan, Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat, Barack Obama’s sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, Indonesian writers Eka Kurniawan and Dee Lestari as well as chef Chris Salans and international food journalist James Oseland.

Cemeteries in the Philippine capital will be closed on All Saints' Day for the first time, officials said Monday, preventing millions in the Catholic-majority country from visiting their dead loved ones as the coronavirus rages.  

Amid the pandemic still spreading across the country, the annual Dieng Culture Festival in Wonosobo in Central Java, which usually attracts tens of thousands of visitors, will be livestreamed on various platforms on Wednesday and Thursday.

From a bucolic rural grocery shop to fictional battlefields and robot warrior bases, Taiwanese artisans are meticulously handcrafting miniature worlds that fuse reality and fantasy.

Although the virus is still spreading fast in Sao Paulo, students and teachers at the dance school say they wanted -- needed -- to dance together again.

Broadway stars who once lit up New York's most bankable stages now face a reckoning over the future of the performing arts, in an industry that has bled money since the pandemic began.

The boxy museum tucked away beside the prime minister's office in the city center is known affectionately to Dubliners as the "dead zoo". Dating back to 1856, it is part of the sprawl of the National Museum of Ireland and is currently at the start of an extensive 15-million-euro (US$18-million) renovation project.

Poop wine and scorpion vodka are just some of the stars of a new exhibit on revolting alcohol at the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmo in Sweden.

The US city of Charlottesville on Saturday dismantled a statue of a Confederate soldier just blocks from the site of a deadly white supremacist rally in 2017 -- Virginia's latest move to strip away tributes to the pro-slavery Civil War south.

A German museum said Friday it would return the ancestral remains of indigenous Aboriginals to Australia, as European institutions face growing calls for a critical re-evaluation of their collections. 

Komunitas Salihara arts center has just announced its upcoming digital arts festival called Musim Seni Salihara (Salihara’s Arts Season).

The Quai d'Orsay art museum in Paris has apologized to a woman after agents refused to let her in until she covered up a low-cut dress. 

The festival is scheduled to feature four main activities, namely a visual art exhibition, performance programs, art competitions and a culture festival market. 

Stuck at home for weeks while Japan was under a state of emergency due to the coronavirus, renowned Japanese Bunraku puppet master Kanjuro Kiritake, all his performances cancelled for months, was stricken with deep anxiety.

The toppling of Confederate statues during nationwide protests against racial injustice brought renewed attention to the importance of US public monuments, very few of which were made by Black sculptors.

South Korean tattooist Doy counts Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt and members of K-Pop band EXO among his celebrity clients, but his delicate, detailed designs could land him in prison.

A festival in Taiwan where enormous pigs are slaughtered and displayed is drawing smaller crowds as animal rights activists alter perceptions of the controversial tradition.

What could the future of the art fair look like?

They're drawing crowds in Sweden: cute and quirky shopfronts, delis and restaurants created by a mystery art collective called "Anonymouse" that have popped up out of nowhere in some cities.

When the second wave of COVID-19 infections hit South Korea in late August, forcing people to suspend many of their daily activities, the Busan Biennale‘s organizing committee went into crisis mode.

British theaters urgently need to be given a date when they can reopen at full capacity if they are to survive the coronavirus pandemic, composer and theater owner Andrew Lloyd Webber told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday.

There is something different about this year’s ARTJOG, but it's still very much worth a visit - either online or offline.

France's culture ministry said it had contacted prosecutors about allegations by a soprano that she was repeatedly sexually assaulted during opera rehearsals in Paris and three other French cities.

It’s a little-known fact that dockworkers in Australia were up in arms to help Indonesia maintains its Independence.

Dutch King Willem-Alexander's "Golden Coach" will have its return to ceremonial duties postponed after a refit, amid controversy over pictures of slaves on the horse-drawn carriage.

It is well-known that music calms the soul, but how does it affect artistic creation? The Art Newspaper called on contemporary artists Jenny Saville, Chantal Joffe, Rashid Johnson and Michael Armitage to share the titles of songs that they often play in their studios.