A Break at Jalan Cemara

"You should open a gallery," painter Mochtar Apin once told Toeti Heraty. Two weeks ago, that gallery, now 20 years old, was officially turned into a personal museum. Art critic Bambang Bujono paid it a visit.

May 6, 2014

THE stereotype of Indonesian art collectors is one of excessively rich people who at a drop of a hat spend billions of rupiah to acquire an 'object' that is 'merely' made of canvas and paint or constructed of metal and wood. They are usually top executives of large corporations, or successful entrepreneurs. What then if a collector turns out to be a professor, who is also a poet, a doctor in philosophy, manager of a nonprofit organization, and a hous

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