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 ...

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, ...

Deep inside a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a single human handprint has pushed the story of art back to at least 67,800 years ago. The stencilled outline, created when someone ...

An Indonesian cave painting that depicts a prehistoric hunting scene could be the world's oldest figurative artwork dating back nearly 44,000 years, a discovery that points to an advanced artistic ...

The world’s oldest known figurative artwork has been discovered in a cave in Indonesia – an endearing image of a warty pig. Archaeologists working on the site on the island of Sulawesi said the cave ...

It’s so expensive. But I didn’t care,” he says. Kusuma is among a handful of passionate Indonesian art collectors who exhibited works from their private collections at the newly inaugurated fair Art ...

The fairground of Art Jakarta was buzzing last week as crowds of collectors and art professionals from nearby and abroad filtered into the newly refurbished Jakarta Convention Center in the heart of ...

JAKARTA (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, according ...

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