One of Iran’s most important filmmakers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran, the judiciary said on Sunday. The 83-year-old was indelibly associated with the Iranian new wave of cinema, having made
Within A Budding Grove takes its title from the second volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, which follows the protagonist’s adolescence and his increasing sense of self-awareness. As a teenager, Jyll Bradley spent a lot of time sitting in
A new exhibition at Somerset House explores the stories of Black British fashion. The exhibition, titled The Missing Thread, curated by the Black Orientated Legacy Development Agency (BOLD). The artworks spanning from the 1970s to the present day, the exhibition charts the
Since the beginning of the 1800s, the reorganisation of Istanbul, like European cities, has been one of the main agendas of the state. For many years, Ottoman administrators dreamed of constructing a capital city with organised streets and boulevards, replacing wood with
A new research published on Oct. 11 has given up a new secret about Mona Lisa. Using X-rays to peer into the chemical structure of a speck of the celebrated work of art, scientists have gained new insight into Leonardo da Vinci’s techniques
The Netherlands did not grant a visa to the director and artist Kutluğ Ataman, deemed worthy of the Royal Award of Honor. Ataman shared the incident on his Twitter account. With this incident, a new one has been added to the recent
As Frieze is celebrating its 20th year, ArtDog Istanbul launched its international edition at Frieze London. Organized a launch party in collaboration with Piartworks London, the international edition launched in London. As we are celebrating the international edition of ArtDog Istanbul, we
Turkey has repatriated 37 valuable artefacts, including pieces from the Urartu period and a Roman period deer statue, from Switzerland. Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy made the announcement during an event organized by the Turkish Historical Society (TTK) in the
Emerging artists and big names in contemporary art will both feature as Frieze London, one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious contemporary art fairs, opened to the public yesterday. Now in its 20th year, the fair has grown in profile and
In the Aegean province of Izmir in Turkey, scientists have recently uncovered figurines that date back to around 5700 BC. The figurines are believed to depict a male-female pair and a child. Özlem Çevik, an archaeologist at Trakya University, is leading a
Pera Film, in coordination with the Occupied City exhibition organized by the Istanbul Research Institute, revisits one of the most pivotal points in cinema history, the birth years of Italian Neorealism. Under the Shadow of Occupations traces the radical impacts of war on cities and communities
The Museum of Modern Art has acquired artworks by two major digital artists, Refik Anadol and Ian Cheng. The Anadol piece, Unsupervised – Machine Hallucinations – MoMA (2022), is a generative artwork that uses the museum’s visual archive to produce a machine-learning
