A long-awaited private museum, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara—Museum MACAN for short—finally opened its doors in Jakarta over the weekend. Founded by Indonesian philanthropist ...

"Insider XI (Laura)," a 1999 sculpture by the British artist Antony Gormley, and "Ascending," a painting by the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang made using gunpowder and ink. The artworks feature in ...

It’s official: Indonesia’s first contemporary and modern art museum, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN) will open its doors in November. The Jakarta institution’s ...

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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, ...

Unique piece seen at the exhibition. Artist Natasha Tontey has opened her new large-scale, immersive exhibition, “Primate Visions: Macaque Macabre”, at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in ...

Courtesy of Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara Indonesia’s famously vibrant modern-art scene finally has the home it deserves. Museum MACAN—a contraction of Modern and Contemporary Art ...