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For years, the Sicilian Mafia terrorised the Italian public and state, with its highest-profile killings that of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992.
2 years agoAt first glance it seems to be just a modern take on Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece "Girl with a Pearl Earring". But look more closely and things get a little strange. ...
2 years agoHaving directed multiple successful films alongside a rich acting, singing and traditional dance career in the 1940s through the 60s, Ratna Asmara, Indonesia’s first woman director, should be a celebrated figure. Why has her name been forgotten? ...
2 years agoDesigners and studios have assembled for an exhibition to take on the challenges technological transformation presents to the graphic design industry.
5 years agoDemonstrators braved freezing temperatures on Tuesday to protest against the awarding of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke because of his support for the late Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.
5 years agoAt Bangkok's Reclining Buddha temple Krairath Chantrasri says he is a proud custodian of a 2,000-year-old skill - the body-folding, sharp-elbowed techniques of Thai massage, which this week could be added to UNESCO's prestigious heritage list.
5 years agoPerformance artist David Datuna waited two hours until "I was hungry" before eating a pricey banana artwork in Miami, he explained with laughter on Monday after returning to New York.
5 years agoOpera Gandari promises an all-embracing art form based on Goenawan Mohamad’s depiction of the Mahabharata character.
5 years agoArt and science look very much like two different realms, but Filippo Sciascia harmonizes the two in his latest solo exhibition.
5 years agoColombian director Nicolas Rincon Gille's "Valley of Souls", the story of a father's solitary search for the bodies of his murdered sons, won top prize Saturday at the Marrakesh film festival.
5 years agoColombian director Nicolas Rincon Gille's "Valley of Souls", the story of a father's solitary search for the bodies of his murdered sons, won top prize Saturday at the Marrakesh film festival.
5 years ago"Tosca", Giacomo Puccini's opera about a diva prepared to do anything for love, was given a cinematic flavor as it opened La Scala's season for the first time.
5 years agoA new exhibition shows a little known side of the late Andrzej Wajda, who was not only an Oscar-winning Polish film and theater director but also a lifelong visual artist with a love of Japan.
5 years agoAustrian writer Peter Handke devoted his Nobel Academy speech to literary questions Saturday, avoiding the controversy over his pro-Serbian views that led Kosovo to announce a boycott of next week's awards ceremony.
5 years agoAuthor Etty Indriati has just released her second book on Sumba's woven fabrics, showcasing her personal collection of the traditional hand-made cloth.
5 years agoA performance artist shook up the crowd at the Art Basel show in Miami Beach on Saturday when he grabbed a banana that had been duct-taped to a gallery wall and ate it.
5 years agoA top-tier jazz trumpeter and Spike Lee's go-to film score master for three decades, Terence Blanchard is now set to make history as the first black composer to stage a production at New York's esteemed Metropolitan Opera.
5 years agoFrom quiet beginnings just a few weeks ago, "The Rapist is You!" -- the creation of four performance artists from a Chilean feminist group -- has turned into a mighty global roar against sexual violence.
5 years agoA member of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel literature prize, said on Friday he would boycott this year's celebrations in protest at the award being given to Austrian writer Peter Handke, a supporter of Serbia's late president.
5 years agoAn exhibition at Darmawangsa Residence in South Jakarta brings the art of Papua’s Kamoro tribe to the capital and lets visitors place bids on sculptures and plait work from Indonesia’s far east.
5 years agoThe event's initiator, Yongki Irawan, a member of the Padepokan Janti art community, said the event was part of the regional administration's effort to pay more attention to its artists.
5 years agoIndonesian artist and poet Jeihan Sukmantoro spontaneously composed a poem during a talk at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (MACAN) in April. The poem hints that he was ready for his passing.
5 years agoCoinciding with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Tuesday, a public screening of documentaries in Central Java seeks to drive inclusion with the help of high-tech filmmaking.
5 years agoThe Italian artist debuted his latest sculptural intervention, "Comedian," at the renowned international art fair, which will run until December 8 at Miami Beach Convention Center.
5 years agoNine local and four international artists will be featured at the festival.
5 years agoTens of thousands of devout Hindus thronged a temple in southern Nepal where thousands of animals and birds were sacrificed this week, amid an outcry from animal rights activists who said the ritual was a cruel and gruesome spectacle.
5 years agoWahyu, founder of the Indonesia Dragonfly Society (IDS), has been documenting and researching dragonflies across Indonesia for the past 10 years.
5 years agoItalian photographer Paolo Roversi took inspiration from William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" for the 2020 Pirelli calendar, which features Hollywood names such as Emma Watson and Kristen Stewart as well as transgender model and actor Indya Moore.
5 years agoThis year's prestigious Turner Prize will be shared by all four shortlisted artists after they formed a collective to show solidarity at a time of global "political crisis".
5 years agoArtists from seven Asian countries come together for a literal multicultural performance that brought imageries from the wildest dreams.
5 years agoThree Danish artists combined their creative energy to explore the medium of clay at the Jatiwangi Art Factory in the West Java town for their “Living as Clay” projects for the fifth Indonesia Contemporary Ceramics Biennale.
5 years agoIdentity politics and the changing nature of what it means to be Balinese is a common theme for contemporary Balinese artists to explore within their works.
5 years agoTwo external members of the Nobel literature prize committee quit on Monday after criticizing the scandal-hit Swedish Academy.
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