Thanks to her perseverance and wide network, she was finally able to realize her dream of running a handmade ceramic tableware business that boasts products with up-to-date colors and ornamentation to meet international market demand.

In a poor neighborhood north of Lisbon, tourists contemplate a huge mural of a black woman pulling off a white mask -- a potent symbol in a "no-go" neighborhood that has been transformed by art.

Egypt's antiquities ministry unveiled the tombs of ancient high priests and a sarcophagus dedicated to the sky god Horus at an archaeological site in Minya governorate.

The annual international contemporary art festival ARTJOG will return from July 23 to Aug. 30 at the Jogja National Museum (JNM) in Yogyakarta.

Hundreds of newly discovered photographs, including some taken at the Sobibor death camp, represent a "quantum leap" in research into Nazi crimes against humanity, historians at the Berlin museum Topography of Terror said Tuesday.

The late literary legend WS Rendra’s play Panembahan Reso might be a scathing criticism of the New Order regime, but its latest incarnation can be whatever you make of it.

Designer toys are collectible and sought after for the variety of issues they speak to. 

The Leonardo Opera Omnia exhibition would allow visitors to understand Leonardo da Vinci's life by revealing it through his paintings. 

A Danish newspaper refused to apologize to China on Tuesday over a satirical cartoon it ran about the deadly new virus that has killed dozens and infected thousands more.

If the sight of a Campbell soup can can immediately evoke Warhol's most famous work of art, then the artist reputation as the world's most famous visual artist is secure, no questions asked.

For centuries the Changpa have tended the shaggy goats that provide silky-soft, super-expensive pashmina wool. But now many are rethinking their way of life, in part because of climate change.

To welcome Chinese New Year, Confucians in Kediri, East Java, took part in a traditional ritual.

A celebrated author, Kho Ping Hoo's martial arts stories continue to captivate readers.

Garin Nugroho’s multidisciplinary stage production, Planet - Sebuah Lament (The planet, a lament), is a timely story that also explores the rich cultures of eastern Indonesia.

Painter Jumaldi Alfi, known to mix words with art, is holding a solo exhibition in Yogyakarta until February.

Ash from a rumbling Philippine volcano has inspired an artist and instructor to paint watercolours using the grey powder that had covered the plants in her backyard.

To flashing lights and a techno beat, an ocean throws up two bedraggled sisters whose ornate costumes betray traces of a better life - the opening of a new ballet at London's Royal Opera House.

"Forget about the May 1998 riots. Let's create a more beautiful history. In Surakarta, tolerance between different ethnicities and religions has existed for ages. We must continue to maintain and preserve it," said Sumartono, who this year serves as head of the Solo Imlek committee.

The Chinese New Year 2020 celebration is almost upon us and Chinese people throughout the country are welcoming the start of the Year of the Rat.

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr will stand trial April 21 on charges he groped three women, in the latest #MeToo case to reach the courts.

Open to the public since mid-2019, the Ganesya Museum in Malang, East Java, serves as an educational attraction that displays historical remnants from the era prior to the Majapahit Kingdom to the beginning of the spread of Islam on Java Island.

"Black—Hut, Black—Hut", Widjaja’s ideas about home and the complexities of belonging in a transient world initially came to life through a distinct dream about five years ago.

American artist Judy Chicago had a glint in her eye -- as well she might -- as she posed in front of a giant golden banner embroidered with the legend, "What if women ruled the world?"

A gloomy self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh was declared genuine on Monday after decades of uncertainty, experts identifying it as the only work painted by the Dutch master while he suffered from psychosis.

Italian resort Rimini on Monday marked 100 years since the birth of director Federico Fellini, whose visual dreamscapes revolutionized cinema in a career spanning almost half a century.

A collective of artists have banded together to express their inner artistic odysseys through a visual art exhibition called “Excursion” at the National Gallery of Indonesia that runs from Jan. 8 to 27.

The mystery surrounding a $66 million painting deepened last month after it resurfaced in the walls of an Italian gallery nearly 23 years after it was reported stolen.

A vast website documenting the forgotten "sub-camps" of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz was launched on Thursday by an association of private researchers in Berlin on Thursday.

Michael Morris, a curator at New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage, was trying to fulfill a run-of-the mill request when he uncovered a treasure trove of eyewitness depictions of the Holocaust, drawn in pencil, ink and crayon.

For Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) managing director Sophie Galaise, 19th century fairytale-teller Hans Christian Andersen’s quotation that said “when words fail, music speaks” still strikes the right chord.