The 2025 archaeological excavation season has officially commenced at Blaundos, an ancient city located in the Ulubey district of western Turkey’s Uşak province. Perched dramatically on a high plateau surrounded by deep valleys, Blaundos dates back to the Hellenistic era and saw
Two men have been sentenced in connection with the 2019 theft of America, Maurizio Cattelan’s 18-carat gold toilet sculpture, during a pre-dawn raid at England’s historic Blenheim Palace. The piece, valued at around $6 million, has never been recovered. According to a
Despite ongoing uncertainty in the global auction market, the design category remains resilient, as evidenced by Christie’s recent success. Two sales held by the auction house this June brought in a combined total of $23.6 million, driven by demand for works by
Barbara Kruger’s art has long revolved around repetition—of form, language, and meaning. Throughout her career, she has produced bold, text-driven works that expose the often-invisible mechanisms of power embedded in media and culture. Time and again, she has revisited these earlier pieces,
The fourth edition of the “Guest Artist Program,” a collaboration between Bor Art and Exit Collective, has been completed. The project, which aims to bring together artists living in Mardin with nationally and internationally experienced to create contemporary art through a collective
A clutch of one-off and hitherto unseen ceramic plates and dishes by Pablo Picasso are going under the hammer in Geneva on June 19. Emblematic motifs from Picasso’s artistic universe — pigeons, fish, a goat, a bull, and a bird adorn the colorful
Documentarist Istanbul Documentary Days, which will be held between June 14-19, 2025, brings documentary enthusiasts together in different venues in Istanbul for the 18th time this year. This year’s festival focuses on striking themes such as local and foreign master directors, youth
“Landscapes of the Mind” at Istanbul Modern Photography Gallery focuses on works revealing the writer’s mind through the metaphor of landscape painting by Ali Kazma (b. 1971), one of today’s leading lens-based artists, whose practice explores fundamental questions about the meaning of
Yapıkredi Arts and culture hosts Fulya Çetin and İlhan Sayın’s exhibition. The second edition of the exhibition series Together focuses on two Istanbulite artists of the same generation, who have been active since the 1990s: Fulya Çetin and İlhan Sayın. Presenting urban
What is architecture today: merely a tool for form and aesthetics, or a vehicle for public life, social justice, and human relationships? In essence, our fundamental question is: what is architecture building today? Is it merely aesthetic forms and flashy facades, or
Nobel Prize in Literature winner Annie Ernaux made a powerful statement about the situation in Gaza on June 4, 2025, on the French television program “La Grande Librairie” in the segment “Droit dans les yeux.” Describing the violence in Gaza as genocide,
The FBI recently recovered two paintings stolen from the University of New Mexico’s Harwood Museum of Art in Taos four decades ago. Victor Higgins’s oil painting Aspens (c. 1932) and Joseph Henry Sharp’s portrait Oklahoma Cheyenne aka Indian Boy in Full Dress (c. 1915) were
