Two men have been sentenced in connection with the 2019 theft of America, Maurizio Cattelan’s 18-carat gold toilet sculpture, during a pre-dawn raid at England’s historic Blenheim Palace. The piece, valued at around $6 million, has never been recovered. According to a
Barbara Kruger’s art has long revolved around repetition—of form, language, and meaning. Throughout her career, she has produced bold, text-driven works that expose the often-invisible mechanisms of power embedded in media and culture. Time and again, she has revisited these earlier pieces,
The fourth edition of the “Guest Artist Program,” a collaboration between Bor Art and Exit Collective, has been completed. The project, which aims to bring together artists living in Mardin with nationally and internationally experienced to create contemporary art through a collective
A clutch of one-off and hitherto unseen ceramic plates and dishes by Pablo Picasso are going under the hammer in Geneva on June 19. Emblematic motifs from Picasso’s artistic universe — pigeons, fish, a goat, a bull, and a bird adorn the colorful
“Landscapes of the Mind” at Istanbul Modern Photography Gallery focuses on works revealing the writer’s mind through the metaphor of landscape painting by Ali Kazma (b. 1971), one of today’s leading lens-based artists, whose practice explores fundamental questions about the meaning of
Yapıkredi Arts and culture hosts Fulya Çetin and İlhan Sayın’s exhibition. The second edition of the exhibition series Together focuses on two Istanbulite artists of the same generation, who have been active since the 1990s: Fulya Çetin and İlhan Sayın. Presenting urban
The FBI recently recovered two paintings stolen from the University of New Mexico’s Harwood Museum of Art in Taos four decades ago. Victor Higgins’s oil painting Aspens (c. 1932) and Joseph Henry Sharp’s portrait Oklahoma Cheyenne aka Indian Boy in Full Dress (c. 1915) were
Alberto Manguel invites reflection on literature and memory with two special events in Istanbul. At Yapı Kredi Bookstore, he will hold a book signing, and at İstanbul Modern, he will join artist Ali Kazma for a conversation, offering a deep dialogue on
Applications are ongoing for the 2025 edition of BASE, an exhibition that brings together works of recent graduates from various disciplines across Türkiye with art lovers in Istanbul every year. The deadline for applications is June 15. This year marks the 9th
The group exhibition titled “Everyone Knows…” critically examines democracy in crisis through original artistic practices. Curated by Bahar Adan and hosted at G-art Gallery, the exhibition aims to position itself outside of Türkiye’s increasingly superficial, non-discursive, and politically neutralized art environment. Hosting
June has reinvigorated the art scene as well. In the first month of summer, museums and galleries are offering an array of striking exhibitions, making it increasingly difficult to choose among them. The editors of ArtDog Istanbul have compiled a selection of
Since the opening of its new building, Istanbul Modern has attracted significant international attention. At the European Museum of the Year Awards, the museum was honored with the Portimão Prize for Welcoming, Inclusion, and Belonging. Organized under the auspices of the Council
