The Old Masters auction at Dorotheum on 25th October 2023, will feature a rediscovered work on paper which has recently been identified as a late drawing by Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, the central artist of the High Renaissance. The sketch, depicting a horse
Palestinian workers in the Gaza Strip have found dozens of ancient graves, including two sarcophagi made of lead, in a Roman-era cemetery, a site dating back some 2,000 years that archaeologists describe as the largest cemetery discovered in Gaza. Workers came upon
Within the scope of the Beyoğlu Cultural Road Festival, organized by the Culture and Tourism Ministry and Türk Telekom, various events will take place at the Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) and Galataport Istanbul from Sept. 30 to Oct. 15. Türk Telekom Open
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
