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REVIEW FILM: THE INVITATION

Paranoia yang disebabkan oleh trauma masa lalu membuat orang sekitar meragukan kondisi mental mereka yang mengalaminya. Rasionalitas dianggap sebagai validitas kondisi psikologi yang normal. Di sisi lain intuisi yang sebagian dipengaruhi oleh perasaan diragukan.
WHAT 19 NOVEMBER HAS TO SAY TO THE WORLD

News about Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaya Purnama being named suspect by police over blasphemy allegation in a politically-ridden circumstances has garnered international media attention recently. The double minority status of his Christian religion and Chinese ethnicity in a majority Muslim population plays well with the foreign sentiment towards the country with the biggest Muslim population in the world, questioning the spirit of equality and harmony in diversity it brags so much about.
TELAAH KEBAKARAN PENCAKAR LANGIT

Tak banyak yang bisa diperbuat untuk memadamkan api di ketinggian gedung baru Neo SOHO hingga puncaknya di lantai 42. Meski pemadam senantiasa memadamkan api, namun semprotan air tak mampu mencapai ketinggian di atas 20 lantai. Asa dan keberanian para pemadam harus berhenti di batas ketinggian tangga otomatis. Jauh di atas sana, api merambat semakin tinggi, dan sesaat setelah terlihat sudah padam, panas yang belum pupus membuat api kembali menyala.
MUSEUM NASIONAL TO HOLD THE FIRST GRAFFITI EXHIBITION

In a similar fashion as when photography was acknowledged for the first time as a medium worthy of an art-status exhibition in Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, in 1967 featuring the work of Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, and Garry Winogrand, graffiti in Indonesia jubilantly marked its own recognition with a joint exhibition Off the Wall by a dozen graffiti artists in Museum Nasional, November 2016.
JAILOLO IN EKO’S BOLD CONCEPTION

Better to let go of the excessive reminiscence of his touring with a famous American pop star , or, more prominently, a stint at a production of Disney’s musical that involved names such as Elton John, Hans Zimmer, and Tim Rice, all happened over 15 years ago, Eko Supriyanto is at the top list of homegrown contemporary dance choreographers. So much he loves the diversity of tradition that make up what is now Indonesia that he draws the inspiration from ethnic groups traditional value and social setting, then reconceptualizes them in his work, such as clearly demonstrated in the Balabala.

NEW YEAR MARKS A NEW YOU

The often-cited words in the trying times is that hope keeps humans alive. And in a spirited gesture of placing that hopes sky-high in the new year, people who crowded a new year party event at a beach hotel in Bangka Island lit the sky lantern before releasing them up to the sky. Moments after the collective act, the view above began to be surrounded by bright dots, and at a particular height they slowly turned to obscurity.

LAST NO LEAST IN JAZZ BUZZ SALIHARA

Imanissimo made a closing performance in Jazz Buzz Salihara 2017, the same time they announced the launch of their latest album Enigma. Citing the term chaotic jazz, after a brief theatrical overture, the progressive rock band introduced one of the songs from Enigma with ear-piercing noise in Mini Minimanimo Ini Imanissimo, of which they were relieved that everybody in the Teater Salihara left the show.
BEBAS BEREKSPLORASI LAGI DI JAZZ BUZZ SALIHARA 2017

Jazz Sans Frontieres kembali menjadi tema festival musik jazz mini Jazz Buzz Salihara 2017. Di pagelaran keenam ini, Komunitas Salihara konsisten memamerkan keunikan konsep jazz tanpa batas. Komunitas Salihara tetap mempertahankan semangat menjadikan acara ini ajang bagi musisi jazz kontemporer untuk bereksplorasi, dan untuk pasar pendengar musik tanah air di luar konvensi umum jazz Indonesia.
PERANG DUNIA I DAN PENUTUPAN KAWASAN PROSTITUSI NEW ORLEANS

Satu jenis musik vernakular yang berakar dari Eropa dan dipadukan dengan Afrika dikenal publik Amerika Serikat pada tahun 1868 menggunakan gitar, trombon, piano, terompet, dan saksofon. Perpaduan aliran musik blues, ragtime dan musik Eropa, terutama musik band, merupakan bentuk awal musik jazz yang berkembang lintas jaman hingga ke bentuknya yang terdapat sekitar tahun 1915-1917.
FREEDOMS JAZZ AWARD 2016

The consistency of a few people in the industry has led them to hosting a music award for the young and talented musicians whom they are so dedicated to find in this country. These people are some of the first who spotted Joey Alexander. And after hosting Freedoms Jazz Festival last year, iCanStudioLive reintroduced similar concept in August 2016, but by adding a score in holding Freedoms Jazz Award 2016 as the closing remark.

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THE POLITICS TOWER

DANCING THE SOUND OF LABORIOUS WORK IN HELATARI SALIHARA 2017

DANCE FILM PERFORMANCE IN THE STREETS OF SOUTH JAKARTA

HOUSE MUSEUM STORES THOUSANDS OF ANTIQUES IN KEMANG

A FALSE PROMISE IN DESERTED SAND QUARRY

SITI FATIMAH TRAGIC ROMANCE

WHEN BETAWI MEETS JAZZ

THE SUM OF STEFANO BOLLANI’S TENACITY

THE REAL JAVA JAZZ