Turkey has repatriated 37 valuable artefacts, including pieces from the Urartu period and a Roman period deer statue, from Switzerland. Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy made the announcement during an event organized by the Turkish Historical Society (TTK) in the
Emerging artists and big names in contemporary art will both feature as Frieze London, one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious contemporary art fairs, opened to the public yesterday. Now in its 20th year, the fair has grown in profile and
In the Aegean province of Izmir in Turkey, scientists have recently uncovered figurines that date back to around 5700 BC. The figurines are believed to depict a male-female pair and a child. Özlem Çevik, an archaeologist at Trakya University, is leading a
Pera Film, in coordination with the Occupied City exhibition organized by the Istanbul Research Institute, revisits one of the most pivotal points in cinema history, the birth years of Italian Neorealism. Under the Shadow of Occupations traces the radical impacts of war on cities and communities
The Museum of Modern Art has acquired artworks by two major digital artists, Refik Anadol and Ian Cheng. The Anadol piece, Unsupervised – Machine Hallucinations – MoMA (2022), is a generative artwork that uses the museum’s visual archive to produce a machine-learning
Ankara University and the Adıyalam Municipality have initiated a joint georadar project aimed at the visualization and unravelling of the mysteries of the 2,000-year-old Karakuş Tumulus situated. The aim is to gather data through georadar imaging in the region where the tumulus
Turkey’s prominent photography artist Manuel Çıtak passed away due to a heart attack. A funeral ceremony will be held for Çıtak tomorrow at 14.00 at Feriköy Surp Vartanants Church. Çıtak, who was married to writer Şebnem İşigüzel, had two children. Born in
Yapı Kredi Museum is presenting Pursuit of an Ideal: Atatürk and Alaca Höyük exhibition for the 100th anniversary of the Republic. The museum will exhibit a significant part of the archaeological artifacts unearthed during the Alaca Höyük excavations. The exhibition, prepared in
Turkey’s prominent contemporary artist Haluk Akakçe died on Monday, Oct 9. The 53-year-old artist, who had been treated for lung cancer for a while and remained in a coma for nine days, passed away this morning. In his post on his Instagram
On 13 October, Arter will host pianist and educator Toros Can who has been awarded the Diapason d’Or twice, and his daughter Beril Can, for a special performance focused on Hungarian composer Béla Bartók’s Mikrokosmos (1926–1939). Considered one of the essential sources for piano
Researchers have found 2,000-year-old bronze coins during excavations in the ancient city of Alexandria Troas, a 2,400-year-old port city in the northwestern province of Çanakkale. “These coins date back to the end of the 1st century B.C. and the first quarter of
As an artist, Anna Uddenberg translates reality to the sculpture while polarizing the view of corporeality, sex (or gender) and commodity aesthetics. In her figurative and recent abstract works, Uddenberg explores gender performativity and supposedly authentic self-images in the age of social
