Split into a prologue, three acts, and an epilogue, it makes clever use of the art center’s Curve gallery — a 90-meter-long (295-foot) space where her epic painted scrolls stretch into the ...

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius.

Artist Citra Sasmita imagines a world populated entirely by women in her momentous painted scrolls, part of a new exhibition at London’s Barbican. The contemporary artworks are a twist on ...