The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), has announced that the 18th Istanbul Biennial will be curated by Christine Tohmé. This upcoming edition will span three years, with events and initiatives scheduled from 2025 to 2027, each phase building upon the
Ashfika Rahman won the Future Generation Art Prize 2024, the seventh edition of the global art prize for artists under 35, established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009. The international jury announced the winner at the award ceremony on October 29
In Claire Keegan’s deeply evocative novella Small Things Like These, set against the raw chill of an Irish winter in 1985, a coal merchant, Bill Furlong, finds himself at a moral crossroads. As he uncovers the hidden cruelties of a Magdalene laundry
In a powerful statement of solidarity, a coalition of prominent authors, including Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux and Rupi Kaur, Sally Rooney, and Judith Butler, has pledged to boycott Israeli cultural institutions perceived as “silent observers” of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in
Oxford University’s Bodleian Libraries has made a discovery, uncovering what may be William Blake’s earliest etchings from his days as an apprentice. Using state-of-the-art ARCHiOx scanning technology, which captures surfaces at over a million pixels per square inch, researchers were able to
In a recent auction at London’s Sloane Street Auctions, an “exceedingly rare” bronze cast of Egon Schiele’s death mask fetched $24,600—over ten times its estimated price. The mask, created by Austrian sculptor Gustinus Ambrosi just two days after Schiele’s death in 1918
An extraordinary typescript of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, featuring the author’s own handwritten corrections and sketches, will soon be available for purchase at the price of $1.25 million. Regarded as a “literary treasure” by rare book dealers, this unique
Hungarian Parliamentary Speaker László Kövér opened the exhibition Parliament on the Danube Bank at Istanbul’s Tarık Zafer Tunaya Cultural Center during an official visit to Türkiye. Running until October 31, the exhibition is part of the Hungarian-Turkish Cultural Year and is organized
On a crisp Roman evening, amid the storied arches of the Colosseum, a new exhibition opened, one that reaches across time to introduce Italy to a distant ancestor of civilization. Three replicas of stone artifacts from Göbeklitepe—a Turkish archaeological marvel dating back
Renée Levi, the internationally acclaimed abstract artist, presents La Elle, her latest solo exhibition at Paris’s renowned Palais de Tokyo, running through May 11, 2025. Known for her immersive, large-scale installations that redefine public and private spaces, Levi’s La Elle brings her
The global art market experienced a decline in 2023, as reported by UBS, with total sales dipping 4% year-on-year to approximately $65 billion. This slowdown followed two years of strong growth, with economic factors like high interest rates, inflation, and political instability
British archaeologists have made a discovery that reminds them of an Indiana Jones film. They have found a hidden tomb beneath the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, according to a press release from the University of St. Andrews. The team of
