Art
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In defence of New Zealand’s ‘crappiest fountain ever’ | Letter
Ainsley Dawrent responds to an undiplomatic comment about the bucket fountain at Cuba Mall in WellingtonToby F…
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The family who invented an art style: ‘He was so scared he would break the pen … now the children do it’
Over three generations in India, members of the Jogi family have preserved their culture with unique and detai…
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‘It’s good to be alive’: groundbreaking New Zealand artist brings light and joy to city streets
Sallie Culy, who has Williams Syndrome, is the first artist with an intellectual disability to exhibit in Well…
- Architecture, Art, Art and design, Bangladesh, Culture, Exhibitions, India, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka
‘They were transforming their countries’: South Asian architecture after British rule
A MoMA exhibition takes a new look at the modernist structures that defined Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sr…
- Art, Art and design, Culture, Global development, Hip-hop, Music, Myanmar, Myanmar coup, Protest, South and Central Asia, World news
Kicking back at the regime: artists open another front in Myanmar war
With the military increasing its use of informants, rappers and artists must keep their identities secret, eve…
- Art, Art and design, Asia Pacific, China, Hong Kong, Protest, Sculpture, Tiananmen Square protests 1989, Universities, World news
Outcry as Hong Kong University memorial to Tiananmen Square victims is removed
Site of the Pillar of Shame at the city’s oldest university is under guard after workmen dismantled statueHong…
- Art, Art and design, Colonialism, Culture, India, Indigenous peoples, Photography, South and Central Asia, US news
Images of India: from courtesans and colonial rule to a child’s-eye view – in pictures
Since its invention in the 1840s, photography has played an integral part in Indian art history. Although it i…
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Looted and left in an English garden, the goat goddess can return to India
The statue, once on sale at Sotheby’s, was recovered amid claims it was part of a precious trove of stolen art…
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New Zealand’s secondary art market is booming – now artists want a share
Without a resale royalty scheme, struggling artists are missing out on much needed money for their workThis mo…
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Hong Kong opens modern art museum as security law casts pall
Multibillion-dollar M+ struggles to find a balance between artistic expression and political censorshipA senio…
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‘We planted a seed’: the Afghan artists who painted for freedom
The Taliban has whitewashed Kabul’s political murals – and those who created them have fled into exileNegina A…
- Art, Art and design, Arts policy, Culture, Global development, India, Kashmir, South and Central Asia, World news
‘We want dignity’: the vanishing craft of Kashmir’s papier-mache artists
Award-winning artist Maqbool Jan is one of a handful still practising the ancient artform, but without governm…
- Archaeology, Art, Art and design, Culture, Design, Kazakhstan, Science, South and Central Asia, World news
Gold of the Great Steppe review – the breathtaking lives of history’s ‘barbarians’
Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeFrom their astounding burial mounds to their dazzling horses dressed up as mythic…
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Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture washed into sea by Japan storm
Experts consider possibility of rebuilding artist’s work, which was swept off a pier near NaoshimaExperts are …
- Architecture, Art, Art and design, Culture, India, Narendra Modi, Sculpture, South and Central Asia, World news
Modi’s bulldozing of parliament shows him as the architect of a Hindu Taliban | Anish Kapoor
Flattening the majestic Murghal-inspired buildings is the latest stage in a hateful, vanity-fuelled campaign t…