With strong collaboration between the government and private sector, the batik industry can ensure the preservation of this ...

To wear batik is to drape oneself in a piece of Malaysia’s soul. Its colours and patterns celebrate nature, culture and ...

Crystal glass eagle sculptures and batik chokers are set to be special souvenirs for delegates attending the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat (AMM) here this weekend. The distinctive art pieces, which ...

The most visually dazzling and TikTok-baiting exhibition at SAW 2025 is Yang Derong’s DIGikat – Our Social Fabric. Known for ...

He is one of the early practitioners of Sri Lankan batik. Looking back on 70 years of art, and 60 years perfecting this ancient Eastern craft, Eric Suriyasena has come up with a new gallery down ...

From the most to least famous, these are ten great paintings dedicated to ancient Greek myths or containing references to them. 1. The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli, the great Italian painter of ...

While preserving traditional batik is crucial, the creation of modern patterns is equally encouraged to keep the art form vibrant and evolving. Current research primarily focuses on batik ...

Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy. This may be why eye-rolling and schadenfreude emerge so virulently whenever said ...

Batik Air said the two new destinations will be its 7th and 8th routes in China, adding to its existing services to Chengdu, Guangzhou, Haikou, Kunming, Zhangjiajie, and Zhengzhou.

An exact replica of a cave painting in Lascaux showing a bison and aurochs facing each other, along with small horses and deer. | Patrick Aventurier/GettyImages Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago ...

Vermeer’s oeuvre may be slim—only 35 surviving works are widely attributed to the Dutch painter—but it casts a long shadow. Little is known of the artist himself, so much so he was dubbed ...

To celebrate the artist’s enduring legacy, we surveyed 10 of Raphael’s most popular paintings (determined by their presence on Google Images, the number of reproductions created, and our own a ...