During the first week of March, we held meetings with publishers and agencies from all over the world for the Istanbul Fellowship Program, trying to spread Turkish literature to the world while introducing new books to our language. We bustled between tables
How It Started… In the first days of the new decade, theaters opened with the final chapter of the iconic trilogy, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Sam Mendes’ one-shot war drama 1917, and Greta Gerwig’s period drama Little Women. On February
The world of art and culture has been interrupted for a long time due to the pandemic. How do you think the current period affect our cultural lives? Undoubtedly, as in all domains, the world of culture and arts was caught unprepared
Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the Sadberk Hanım Museum holds an extensive collection of around 20,000 items. Housing outstanding artifacts dating from prehistory to the 20th century; from Anatolian civilizations, Ottoman artists, as well as Greek and Roman civilizations, the museum
Art is an aesthetic type of opulence that enhances our social memory and keeps it fresh. This richness within the harmonies of art and space cracks the door open toe cultural accumulation and development. The city acts as a significant field integrating
Since national lockdowns started in mid-March, global economies have slowed to a great extent. The art world has been hit even harder, as it is a market based on social interactions and networks. The trend of falling market values correlates with economic
In an early, uncorrected proof of her book, Walk Through Walls, Marina Abramovic wrote that Aboriginal Australians look like dinosaurs. Dinosaurs lived about 160 million years longer than the entire span of human evolution, after the first apelike creatures in Africa became
The exhibition and the book, prepared by VEKAM, are meant to complement the research exhibition, curated by Ali Cengizkan and N. Müge Cengizkan, for the 50th anniversary of the Vehbi Koç Foundation. The research focuses on the structuring, modernization and the establishment
Ayşe & Saruhan Doğan – Zeitgeist You have mentioned that your interest in video art stretches to the early 2000’s. You are one of the first collectors in Turkey to develop a collection with an emphasis on video art. Could you explain
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