Pera Film’s "I’m Here!" program, running December 1–11, 2024, presents "Red Reminds Me…", a powerful video series reimagining the emotional and symbolic narratives of living with HIV.
A curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York was detained in Istanbul after allegedly trying to smuggle spider and scorpion samples. The curator claimed he had permits to collect specimens for research purposes. Arachnid expert Lorenzo Prendini was
Researchers have discovered a new L-shaped structure using ground-penetrating technology in an ancient Egyptian cemetery in Giza. The finding was published in the journal Archaeological Prospection. The team of researchers from Higashi Nippon International University, Tohoku University, and Egypt’s National Research Institute
Burning Man has removed an artwork related to Palestine from its website days after a Change.org petition called to take it down, Hyperallergic reported. The petition’s authors said the work’s title, “From the River to the Sea,” means “language that advocates for
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Italy is the rightful owner of an ancient Greek statue that the Getty Museum in Los Angeles has been holding for years and is one of the museum’s highlights. The Italian government
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies, the peer-reviewed, open-access, international academic journal published by Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Istanbul Research Institute, invites contributions for its sixth and seventh volumes, which will be published in December 2024 and December 2025. The deadline for
The 6th Mardin Biennial, which commenced on May 10, has embarked on a journey titled ‘Further Away’. This theme, carefully chosen by the curator, holds a significant place in the narrative of this year’s biennial. Speaking during the opening curator of this
French police arrested two activists from Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response) at the Musée du Louvre in Paris following their protest in front of Eugène Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading the People” (1830). A video shared on the group’s social media depicted the pair affixing
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose feature film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is set to premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival this month, has been sentenced to eight years in prison, flogging, a fine, and property confiscation, as confirmed by
Curator Carlo Ratti announced that the exhibition title will be presented in a single Latin word, ‘intelligens’, instead of English and Italian. The word is related to the modern term ‘intelligence’, but Ratti emphasized the Latin word ‘gens’, meaning ‘people’. He suggested
Documenta 16 has recently announced that it will hold its next edition in 2027. However, the artistic director will not have a code of conduct installed despite recommendations made by Documenta’s appointed expert advisory panel. This decision was made following an incident
Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has criticized Türkiye for its decision to convert the Byzantine Chora church in Istanbul into a mosque, reported Greekrporter.com. Mitsotakis publicly expressed his disapproval of the conversion just days before his scheduled official visit to Ankara, where
First images from Jean-Luc Godard’s final film Scénarios will be premiering at Cannes Film Festival. “Scénarios,” an 18-minute short film, was completed by the filmmaker in 2022, just one day prior to his passing via an assisted suicide procedure in Switzerland. Additionally,