Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita’s large-scale scrolls are a modern reimaging of traditional Balinese Kamasan paintings. - Jo Underhill/Barbican At first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking that ...

BEKASI, Indonesia/KARANGANYAR, Indonesia (Reuters) -Spraypainting brick walls in an empty yard, Indonesian artist Kemas Muhammad Firdaus braved midday heat to paint a skull in a straw hat on a black ...

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JAKARTA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A cave painting found on Indonesia's island of Sulawesi, depicting human-like figures hunting animals, appears to be the earliest known pictorial record of story-telling, ...

There’s a Jakarta shopping mall called Gandaria City that houses sculptures by Yayoi Kusama, Lucian Freud and Fernando Botero. The strength of this “collection” encapsulates how, for a long time, ...

The Indonesia Art Award (IAA) is among the oldest of the many art competitions and awards in Indonesia. Although the IAA has had its ups and downs, mostly due to funding constraints, it must be ...

A long-awaited private museum, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara—Museum MACAN for short—finally opened its doors in Jakarta over the weekend. Founded by Indonesian philanthropist ...

This story is part of Forbes' coverage of Indonesia's Richest 2017. See the full coverage here. The son of billionaire Soegiarto Adikoesoemo, Haryanto Adikoesoemo started collecting art more than 25 ...

Over the past five years, Indonesia has weathered terrorism, political upheaval and economic crisis. At the same time, the world’s largest Muslim nation has gone through a kind of artistic Renaissance ...

Indonesian artist Arahmaiani has had many lives -- from an imprisoned then exiled anti-dictatorship activist to a hippie, art teacher and environmentalist -- which have inspired her works that test ...

Here in Indonesia, artists have been among those affected amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the government has not yet decided to provide any financial assistance. It seems that mapping and data ...

Hussy, mistress, whore, evil woman – these are just some of the nine example compound words that artist Ika Vantiani was shocked to find listed under the entry for ‘woman’ or ‘perempuan’ in ...