Turkey’s Golden Orange Film Festival, which takes place in Antalya every year, was cancelled a week before the launch of its 60th edition, due to intense political pressure around a planned screening of the documentary The Decree (Kanun Hükmü)i The feature was
Despite claims that the fashion industry is embracing curvier bodies, the data suggests it could be guilty of what one expert calls “fat-washing.” While a handful of plus-size models such as Paloma Elsesser have grabbed media attention in recent years, the figures
The Culture and Tourism Ministry announced yesterday that it withdrew from the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival due to the discussions on the film “Kanun Hükmü” (The Decree) in the National Feature Documentary Competition section of the festival. The 60th edition of
The British Museum on Sept. 26 launched a webpage describing the types of items believed to have been stolen from its collection, calling on the public to help recover the missing artifacts. One of the British capital’s biggest tourist draws, the museum
Part of the first generation of Turkish artists considered to be globally active and nationally influential, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin was fascinated by the difference between the promise of something and its banal reality. This promise could lie in the name of a cheap
National Museum of Women in the Arts will be open on Oct 21. The museum invested $67.5 million to the renovation project. The renovated building is designed by Baltimore-based architectural firm Sandra Vicchio & Associates. The museum’s first full renovation since opening
Iran has received thousands of Achaemenid-era clay tablets from the United States in the fifth such instalment, following a drawn-out legal effort to repatriate the antiquities. “After the two-year follow-up of the government… the Achaemenid tablets confiscated by the American government were
The excavation team has unearthed a 350-year-old Ottoman bath in the ancient city of Parion in Kemer village of the northwestern province of Çanakkale’s Biga district. The ancient city has a history of 2,700 years and was an important port city during
This year once again Contemporary Istanbul will be held over four days from 28 September – 1 October, 2023. The main partner of Contemporary Istanbul is Akbank. The fair is held in the historic district of Tersane Istanbul, on the premises of
Seven artworks by Egon Schiele will be returned to the heirs of a Jewish cabaret performer who had owned the pieces. The works, most of them portraits of Schiele himself or his wife, were part of a massive art collection owned by
The two-volume “Topkapı Palace” book, which features all the details of Istanbul’s Topkapı Palace, has been introduced. Güller Karahüseyin, Head of the National Palaces Museology and Promotion Department, said that the book consists of 29 articles written by well-known names in the
Archaeologists obtain new findings every day in the ancient city of Konuralp, where archaeological excavations have been ongoing for four years with the support of Düzce Municipality. The head of a statue, found at the top of the theater and determined to
