The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) has announced Elif Shafak as its new president, succeeding Bernardine Evaristo at the end of her four-year term.
Over a career spanning more than half a century, Martin Parr, who captured the absurdity and warmth of British life with a unique gaze—from The Last Resort to his critiques of global tourism, making visible the social reality behind ordinary moments—passed away
Rock legend Patti Smith will take the stage at Istanbul’s Bonus Parkorman on May 17, 2026, accompanied by the Patti Smith Quartet.
While the Turkish Statistical Institute’s 2024 data points to a record surge in cultural expenditures, this growth has not translated into real improvement for the wide network of cultural workers spanning editors, authors, translators, and printing laborers.
Architect Frank Gehry, whose audacious designs—from the Guggenheim Bilbao to the Walt Disney Concert Hall—reshaped contemporary architecture, died on Dec. 5 at his home in Santa Monica after a brief respiratory illness. He was 96.
Björk’s new exhibition, which merges ritual, ecology, and Icelandic mythology, opens on May 30, 2026, at the National Gallery of Iceland as part of the opening of the Reykjavik Arts Festival.
The legal tension between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and its former director Sasha Suda has escalated into the public sphere, marked by mutual accusations
On view at EArt Gallery through 18 January 2026, The Possibility of Exceptions draws inspiration from Alfred Jarry’s Pataphysics to foreground personal utopias, alternative realities, and the conceptual spaces opened up by exceptions.
Irish author Sally Rooney stated that, due to her support for Palestine Action in the United Kingdom, not only could her existing books be withdrawn from sale, but publishing any new work there has become almost impossible.
Neriman Polat makes traces of fragility, lost grounds, and collective memory visible through everyday materials in Groundless, her exhibition at Zilberman Berlin. The show is on view until February 7.
The recent ban on feeding stray animals brings into question Istanbul’s centuries-old tradition of coexisting with animals—a culture shaped by mancacılar, charitable endowments, travelers’ notes, and a vocabulary of mercy that has refused to disappear.
A 1939 copy of Superman #1, discovered in a long-neglected attic in California, sold for $9.12 million, becoming the most expensive comic book in history.