Wear your culture on your sleeve, literally. While classic batik may sometimes be seen as old-fashioned, these brands are ...

To Gutsch, the little red dots she fused to her glass art represented brain hemorrhages, also known as brain bleeds. She had ...

Batik chop has revolutionised production, enabling batik entrepreneurs to meet growing demands while keeping prices ...

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

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 ...

If you made a resolution to be more creative in 2025, the Norfolk Arts Center will keep that motivation going through the ...

Navigate the avalanche of shows during SAW with recommendations from Life's arts team. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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 ...

The AI Art Magazine, a biannual, 176-page publication, has just launched, and it’s ready to serve as a vital record of this transformative moment in art history. According to a project statement ...

It has been an unusual year, to say the least, but in one respect, it is business as usual: the art world is still no stranger to legal disputes and its share of controversies. Here are the seven ...

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 ...