The Sound of Europe Festival, which brings together new and successful sounds of European music with musicians from Türkiye, will meet with music lovers in its second edition in three cities in September. The festival was realized last year with the initiative
A committee of eight Paris museums has teamed up to stage a free public game on the streets surrounding the Grand Palais for this year’s European Heritage Days, which will take place from September 9 to 17. The game, “The Incredible Paris
The National Portrait Gallery reopened following a three-year £41 million regeneration project, showcasing its new identity, wayfinding system and interpretation design and gallery rehang. The new identity of the museum was created by Edit Brand Studio’s, while Nissen Richards undertook the interpretation
Legendary Turkish musician Erkin Koray, one of the forefathers of Anatolian rock music, died at the age of 82. Koray had been living in Toronto, Canada for a while and was hospitalized at a medical institution for lung-related problems. His daughter Damla
Developed by the British Council and Cultural Associates Oxford, and implemented in collaboration with Culture Unleashed in Türkiye, ‘Supporting the Creative Economy’ hybrid learning programme is now open for applications. The programme welcomes applications from experts and mid-level executives from the public
The İznik Lake Basilica, discovered in the northwestern province of Bursa’s İznik Lake in 2014 and shown among the 10 most important discoveries in the world in the same year, will be opened to visitors in the digital world with the augmented
Award-winning and internationally acclaimed physical theatre company Gecko embark on a national tour of their brand new production Kin. The tour culminates in a run at the National Theatre in January 2024 – a landmark moment for this important company. Kin is
A ring designed by Tupac Shakur became the most valuable hip-hop artifact ever sold at auction last week. The buyer, meanwhile, is one of the biggest stars in rap today: Aubrey Drake Graham, usually known only as Drake, purchased the ring at
Salt presents a new e-publication, Montage or Synthesis: Texts of Özer Kabaş, as part of the institution’s ongoing research focusing on art in Turkey from the 1950s to the present. Gathering a selection of texts written by the artist, educator, and writer Özer
Tributes have been paid to US Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, who has died at the age of 89. McCarthy’s novels included The Road and No Country for Old Men, both of which were turned into successful films. Fellow author Stephen King called
The Erimtan Archaeology and Arts Museum hosts the Maçka Art Gallery exhibition ‘Where are We?’, with added works by artists based in Ankara today. Curated by Didem Çapa, the exhibition examines Turkish urbanisation and its effects in the last 70 years through
Virginia Woolf’s personal copy of her debut novel, The Voyage Out, digitised for the first time. The book was rediscovered in 2021, having mistakenly been housed in the science section of the University of Sydney library for 25 years. It is the
