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.
According to a report in The Telegraph , there is a proposal to relocate the Mona Lisa to an underground chamber at the Louvre due to busy photographing and interest in the painting. Louvre director Laurence des Cars has suggested moving the
A 3,400-year-old bust of the 19th Dynasty pharaoh King Ramses II has been repatriated to Egypt after being stolen and smuggled out of the country over 30 years ago. The bust is currently housed at Cairo’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilization and
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has returned a life-sized bronze head of a young man to Türkiye. The bronze head was illegally excavated, it was reported. The head had been part of the antiquities collection at the Getty Villa
The small portrait of Mary Magdalene is on display at the Sainte-Marie-Madeleine basilica, which houses relics of Mary Magdalene, rendering it Christianity’s third most significant tomb. Approximately 50 visitors queued on Sunday afternoon to marvel at this forgotten masterpiece by Raphael, renowned
Tate Britain has announced Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur, and Delaine Le Bas as the four artists shortlisted for its prestigious annual Turner Prize. Celebrating its 40th year, the Turner Prize stands as the U.K.’s foremost accolade for contemporary art and
A portrait by Gustav Klimt, missing for a century, recently fetched $32 million at a Vienna auction house. The Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917), with an estimated value of €30 million–€50 million ($32.5 million–$55 million), was acquired by a buyer from Hong
The ancient practice of trepanation has garnered attention in the northern province of Samsun, Türkiye, drawing crowds eager to witness the scars left on millennia-old skulls. The intriguing revelation of trepanation in the region followed a 1981 excavation in İkizdere Mound, located
Rothko Chapel, a groundbreaking $42 million project in Houston, Texas, is set to enhance the area with new buildings, landscaping, and improved accessibility. Over the next two years, the site will witness the construction of an administration and archives building, a new
Director David Lynch, renowned for cult classics such as Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, and Wild at Heart, has curated an exhibition titled ‘Interiors by David Lynch: A Thinking Room’ at the Salon del Mobile fair in Milan. This venture marks a new
Drawing together Şakir Gökçebağ’s installations, sculptures and photographs produced across different time periods and adapting them to Arter’s second floor gallery, As It Seems presents a comprehensive exploration of the artist’s approach of using formal manipulations to transport ordinary objects and familiar images
This year, The 60th Venice Biennale hosts 331 artists and collectives. While the exhibition curated by Adriano Pedrosa, “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere,” is divided into two parts, it explores various crises related to movement, language, nationality, and identity. However, on the
A 17th-century painting stolen from an art gallery at the University of Oxford more than four years ago was recently recovered in Romania, according to BBC news. Salvator Rosa’s Baroque landscape, titled “A Rocky Coast, with Soldiers Studying a Plan,” was taken