A Russian artist unveiled four giant paintings of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in central Istanbul on Saturday, saying he wanted to show the good ties between Ankara and Moscow despite differences over Syria and other issues.

British street artist Banksy is thought to have given a Valentine's Day gift to his home town of Bristol in western England with the appearance of a new mural showing a small girl with a catapult and a splatter of red flowers.

Oscar-winning British director Steve McQueen is returning to his art roots with a series of short films at London's Tate Modern art gallery, offering a sensory exploration of black identity.

Pura Kawitan Majapahit pays homage to an empire thought of by many today as the historical antecedent of modern Indonesia, the Majapahit Empire.

Inspired by symptoms of bipolar disorder, Indonesian artist Hana Madness emphasizes human resilience in her work.

Seminal pop art painting "The Splash" by David Hockey sold for £23.1 million ($29.8 million) at a London auction on Tuesday, the third highest price paid for a work by the British artist. 

The 57-year-old Ben Wilson has toured the British capital for the past 15 years sculpting and repainting scraps of gum discarded by passers-by.

From "kings who were queens" to lesbian lawmakers and reformist governments, Britain's history is awash with LGBT+ characters - and tourists want to know about them.

"Le Concert Impromptu Meets Simpay Panaratas" event marked the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and Indonesia.

Short of something to do at around 4 am on a weekend in Paris late in February? How about a (free) visit to the Paris Louvre museum's show-stopping exhibition of the Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci, hailed by critics as the most significant display of his works in years?

More than140 yoga, dance and music instructors from across the globe will be featured at the event's various scheduled events.

The Wanodja Soenda (Sundanese Women) monologues, held at the Savoy Homann Hotel in Bandung, West Java, on Jan. 29, celebrated three lesser-known woman leaders from West Java.

Hindus gathered in temples across Malaysia on Saturday to celebrate the annual Thaipusam festival, with many piercing their bodies with hooks and skewers, despite concerns about the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

A group of people, including children, all of them hard of hearing, has been able to "hear" through touch Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which has gone down in music history as the Symphony of Fate.

A lost portrait of Charles Dickens and 25 of his unpublished letters will go on display for the first time after a major acquisition from a private collector.

An ambitious but controversial new center for activities surrounding the Nobel prizes, including the prestigious award ceremony and a Nobel museum, has found a new location in Stockholm.

A man was charged Friday after two stolen Banksy artworks were recovered in Paris. 

Not an easy watch for the audience, it cannot have been much fun for the acclaimed young French novelist who has mined his life for his art since his breakthrough memoir, "The End of Eddy", in 2014.

ION Art Gallery at ION Orchard, Singapore, is holding the "If Walls Could Speak" exhibition, displaying works by Indonesian, Indian and Singaporean artists until Feb. 11.

The festival will be opened with the Indonesian premiere of Top End Wedding (2019), a romantic comedy that highlights the landscape of the Australian Northern Territory.

The Leonardo Opera Omnia exhibition features 17 high definition and true to scale digital reproductions of da Vinci’s pieces, including the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.

Art Basel is to cancel its Hong Kong fair because of the coronavirus outbreak, it said Friday, scrapping one of the international art market's largest and most prestigious events.

Images inside a light box come alive in a darkened room. They are visually alluring, able to evoke emotions without any words. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a light box might be worth a million.

Melati Suryodarmo's Why Let the Chicken Run? and Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto will highlight the importance of video and performance as specially trained artists perform daily during the 13 week exhibition; depicting to the audiences a different element of each artist's practice. 

Wayang (Indonesian puppet shows) are widely known throughout the country for being as traditionally Indonesian as it gets.

As sandal season fast approaches, a new exhibit on ancient footwear at a top Italian museum seeks to remind today's well-heeled that when it comes to fashion, do as the Romans did.

A street art Rubik's Cube version of the "Mona Lisa" is expected to sell for up to 150,000 euros ($166,000) when it goes under the hammer in Paris this month.

Tales of Indonesian ghosts and spirits haunt the minds of many – but is there more to these stories than meets the eye?

Larasati Auctioneers of Jakarta plans in 2020 to conduct its 14th consecutive year of presenting high-quality Balinese art to sell to the international market through its Ubud auctions.

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s second and final presidential term recently completed its first 100 days and throughout them visual arts imbued with depictions of him with cult and parody elements have kept on appearing.