Preserving landscapes
Budi Brahmantyo continues a lineage of scientific art for which West Java’s natural resources have provided the subject By: Hawe Setiawan Creating visual reproductions...
Art and the city
Indonesian artists are using new media to rethink urban space By: Edwin Jurriëns Common Room link art and culture with local development – Common Room The...
Soft diplomacy in heavy metal
Indonesia’s liberal art scene attracts adventurous Australian artists By: Kevin Murray The sounds and sights of Punkasila are drawn from many spaces of Indonesian life...
Everything is allowed
The generation of artists rising after Reformasi is failing to create meaning outside the art market Aminudin TH Siregar ‘Seeing Java’, an exhibition of work by...
Herstory in art
Titarubi’s art challenges masculinity in Indonesian visual arts and beyond By: Wulan Dirgantoro Despite the author’s concerns about the reception of the work...
West Java’s village of painting
Artists from the famed village of Jelekong are unsure about what the future holds Ari Adriansyah Odin Rohidin pioneered painting in Jelekong in 1965 – Ari...
Art in Jakarta: Cultural Hotspots in Jakarta
By: Beatrice The traffic is horrible, the streets are absurdly flood-prone, and the pollution is suffocating. Yet Jakarta is hardly ever boring, especially...
Disappearing Trades in Singapore
Modernization in Singapore has been exponentially rapid in the past two decades. The turn of the millennium – and thusly, the burgeoning need to live up to its...
Latitudes Travel Award
Our slogan “Latitudes.nu: Your Gateway to Southeast Asia!” has been supported by many travel writers. Over the last two years they have sent us stories from all over...
Top 4 Singaporean Films
By: Cher Tan It’s been an exciting time for Singaporean cinema. Despite having a flourishing Chinese and Malay film industry in the 1950s and 1960s, the general...
