Richard Horstman
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- Sep 9, 2026
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ARTJOG 2026 Polemic Opens the Door to Transparency & Positive Structural & Ideological Reform - NOW! Jakarta (opens the original)
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The opening of ARTJOG 2026, Indonesia’s premiere contemporary art festival at the Jogja National Museum (JNM), Yogyakarta, June 19, 2026 was marred by spectacle and controversy. An activist from the ArtJokes collective threw red paint at the JMN entrance art installation, proclaiming, “Literature is dead, art is dead. Intellectuals without a sense of rebellion are extensions of the state.” Moments later, JNM security detained him and used force, raising concerns about ARTJOG’s handling of the un
Balinese Artist Agus Putu Suyadnya’s Monumental Universal I - NOW! Jakarta (opens the original)
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Memori Kosmik (Cosmic Memory), forged from the stone of Indonesia’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi, is an imposing, figurative sculpture standing over two metres high. It depicts an astronaut designed as a mythic Hindu god: one hand clutches a globe of the earth, the other raised in a sacred mudra. Its golden, luminescent visor, reflecting peripheral light, adds to its galactic, otherworldly presence. Hauntingly beautiful, mysterious, and compelling, Balinese contemporary artist Agus Putu Suy
The Long Exhale of the World: Afghan Artist AMIN TAASHA’s miniature paintings illuminate ARTJOG 2026 - NOW! Jakarta (opens the original)
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Contemporary art today appears obsessed with bigger is better. Academic training encourages emerging artists to express themselves in large format painting and sculptural compositions. Colour, form and movement infatuates, mesmerises, fascinates and hypnotises our consciousness. Artists are well aware of the power of aesthetic allure, however it also can gloss over, pretend, promise and lie. The obsession with the visual also shows in the preoccupation of our culture to quantify and commodify ev
‘Ring of Pawitra’ Installation at ARTJOG 2026 Draws Attention to Sacred Javanese Sites in Danger - NOW! Jakarta (opens the original)
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Mount Penanggungan, in Mojokerto, East Java, is the keeper of ancient secrets. It lies forty kilometres southwest of Surabaya. It has been recognised as the sacred mountain Pawitra since the 10thcentury, and the spiritual heartland of the 13th-16th-century Majapahit empire. Indonesia’s last Indianized maritime kingdom, based in East Java, the empire encompassed almost the entire Indonesian archipelago and parts of Southeast Asia. Distinguished by sacred shrines, temples, hermitages, caves, and b
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