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.
Taner Ceylan’s “Olympus Exhibitions’, in its third year, hosts the theme Interior. Ceylan once again shows both his love and his passion for art within the artworks with the artworks from artists that he chose who focus on interiors as a theme.
A Diego Velázquez portrait of Spanish Queen Isabel de Borbón, which was expected to break the artist’s previous records, was quietly withdrawn from auction by Sotheby’s in New York. The court painting, which has been owned by a private family trust in
“Oppenheimer” reigned at the 81st Golden Globe Awards. The sprawling examination of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb racked up five wins, the most of any movie, including the prize for best motion picture drama. “Poor Things,” a
Veteran theater and cinema actress Ayla Algan has died of a brain hemorrhage in Istanbul at the age of 86. Algan suddenly fell ill while reading a script at home around 7 p.m. on Jan. 4 and was taken to Taksim Acıbadem
Grand Egypt Museum, Cairo, Egypt When the Grand Egyptian Museum fully opens to the public in mid-2024 (estimated), it will be the world’s most significant archaeological museum complex and host to more than 100,000 artifacts. For the first time, King Tut’s entire
Curator and researcher Kevser Güler will take over the directorship of the Istanbul Biennial as of January 15, 2024. Istanbul Biennial, is organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) since 1987. The 18th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Iwona Blazwick
Last week, hackers hit a popular software used by museums to handle their sensitive information, causing online collections to go down. The news was first reported by Bleeping Computer, which received a copy of a notice that Gallery Systems, a museum software
A database of artistic styles allegedly used to train Midjourney’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) program is garnering criticism on social media after it began circulating online at the end of last year. The “Midjourney Style List” spreadsheet contains more than 16,000 artists’
Photographs of Nelly (1899 – 1998), Greek photographer and the first artist to photograph a nude dancer on the Acropolis, were banned by Facebook, according to Greekreporter.com. Nelly’s photographs of ancient Greek temples set against sea and sky backgrounds helped shape the
Kolekta, an organization that aims to make contemporary art production in Turkey accessible to a larger audience, recently opened an exhibition series in Bregenz, Austria on December 2nd at Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis. The exhibition, curated by Derya Yücel, is titled