Archaeological excavations continue in the ancient city of Satala, the only surviving castle on the eastern border of the Roman Empire and the only Roman Legion castle in Anatolia that can be excavated. Excavations started six years ago in the ancient city
Sanatorium is hosting Yağız Özgen’s solo exhibition titled “Painter” between September 22 – October 28, 2023. Özgen’s fifth solo show in Istanbul, the exhibition presents the artist’s practice as a performative installation, dealing with the complex relationships between objects and signs, together
Depo presents The Past is Present by the Memory Museum for Historical Justice, Turkey’s first digital museum and human rights archive. The Past is Present is the most comprehensive exhibition on the 1980 Coup d’État to date. The exhibition, whose name references
Anna Laudel presents “Glorious Century” by the award-winning visual artist Sarp Kerem Yavuz between September 22 – November 5, 2023. Through film-based, digital, and AI-generated photographs of the male form, Yavuz’s “Glorious Century” explores themes of Orientalism, homoerotica, politics, religion, and violence.
A former head of the V&A Museum, who previously suggested the Parthenon marbles could be shared with Greece, has been put forward as the interim director of the British Museum. Sir Mark Jones will replace Hartwig Fischer, who quit after it emerged
The first production co-directed by Iranian and Israeli filmmakers had to be shot in secret to prevent possible interference by Tehran, directors Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Guy Nattiv told Reuters on Sunday. “Tatami”, a tense thriller centred on a world judo championship,
A monumental artist deserves a monumental documentary, and that is what Anselm Kiefer receives in Wim Wenders’ new film, titled simply Anselm. Wenders shot it in 3D and 6K resolution, documenting the German-born painter and sculptor who makes work on a truly grand
Italian newspapers have speculated that a right-wing journalist backed by Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni is set to become the next president of the Venice Biennale, artner.com reported. Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, who has no previous managerial experience, publicly supported Meloni during her election
The Ukrainian government has launched a new tool for identifying artworks tied to sanctioned Russian nationals. Now accessible through the embattled country’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) is a new “War & Art” database of paintings, sculptures, and other artworks that
A major feature film on Hiroshima is going into production, inspired in part by an unpublished memoir of a Japanese man who witnessed the devastation of the city after the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Scriptwriter Elisabeth Bentley was taken aback
The British Museum has appointed Carl Heron as its interim deputy editor after Jonathan Williams “stepped back” from the position after reports that the institution’s management ignored warnings about stolen and missing items from its collection. According to the Daily Telegraph, the
The Cleveland Museum of Art is facing this question following the seizure of one of its prized Roman antiquities, according to artnewspaper.com The work in question is a spectacular, life-sized, headless bronze statue of a man wearing a toga-like garment. Featured in
