Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía lifted its historic photography ban on Pablo Picasso’s anti-war painting “Guernica” (1937). The work, famous for its depictions of the traumatic horrors of the Spanish Civil War, has been continuously housed in the 20th-century
Morocco’s deadly earthquake badly damaged one of the most important historical sites in the High Atlas mountains, an earth-and-stone mosque built by a medieval dynasty that conquered North Africa and Spain. Moroccan media reported that parts of the Tinmel Mosque had collapsed.
More than 50 world sites hope for inclusion on the UN’s coveted heritage list at a meeting opening in Riyadh Sunday on Sept. 10, while some incumbents, including Venice and Kiev, face the risk of a downgrade. UNESCO, the United Nation’s educational,
‘Picturing a Lost Empire: An Italian Lens on Byzantine Art in Anatolia, 1960–2000’ exhibition focuses on the research on Byzantine art carried out by Italian scholars in the second half of the twentieth century and examines its mutual relationship with the history of
With the initiatives of Türkiye’s Prague Ambassador Egemen Bağış, legendary Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet’s life and photographs, taken in 1956 in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia at the time, and found in the Prague National Theater archives, have been made into a
The Golden Lion in Venice was awarded on Sept. 9 to a hilarious and shockingly explicit reworking of Frankenstein, “Poor Things,” starring Emma Stone as a sex-mad reanimated corpse, which had festival-goers in stitches. An ongoing Hollywood strike may have robbed Venice
Turkish Painting: In the Pursuit of Modernism follows the development of painting from its adoption as a genre in the newly Westernising Ottoman Empire to the first artists of the Republic, who aimed to create an intellectual foundation for their art. The
İzmir Metropolitan Municipality hosts the International Textile Biennial curated by Nihat Özdal, showcasing artworks from 61 countries. The biennial, which started on 2 September and continues until 24 November, aims to convey important messages to the world, exploring themes of slowness, touch,
Excavation works are carried out in the Kum District to clean, reveal historical structures and identify the area, under the direction of the Amasra Museum Directorate. The teams encountered a “nymph statue” 3 meters underground in the last drilling area. The statue, thought
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston closed early on Thursday, saying that a planned protest by climate activists would’ve posed a threat to the institution. The museum, which was founded in 1903 and modeled on a Venetian palace, said it had
An investigation has been launched against the Istanbul Municipality’s (IMM) “Starting from the Middle” exhibition at ArtIstanbul Feshane. IMM President Ekrem İmamoğlu commented on the investigation: “It’s a shame! It’s a disgrace on behalf of democracy.” The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office
Art Fund has announced the recipients of its latest funding to museums and galleries, totalling £1m. Twenty one museums and galleries across the UK have been offered a total of £800,000 for projects to support their workforce and improve inclusion and diversity.
