Well before the pandemic imposed a night-time curfew on Turkish streets (writes Andrew Finkel), there were many who went voluntarily into lockdown certain evenings of the week to watch their favourite ...

The works of the Portuguese-British artist, Paula Rego, are now exhibited in Turkey for the first time. Curated by Alistair Hicks, the exhibition was planned with the participation of the late artist, ...

‘making paste from rain/you may ask - how?/to dream long enough/for fermentation’ These lines, part of a poem by the multidisciplinary artist Sine İçli, are positioned in the lower-left corner of the ...

Nâzım Hikmet, a renowned figure in 20th-century Turkish history, is the subject of James Meyer’s recent book “Red Star over the Black Sea.” Meyer explores Nâzım’s cross-border experiences and his ...

This one-day workshop, commemorating Turkey’s Republic centenary, reexamines Turkish secularism from its inception to contemporary discussions about desecularisation under the Justice and Development ...

In medias res, the curtain rising on the action in full flow, might seem an odd eulogy to recite over the memory of a dear friend, but Robert Chenciner was someone in perpetual motion and even now it ...

Elina Brotherus often chooses to turn her back – rather than her face – towards the camera. Here the gesture is deliberately evocative of the figures depicted by the German Romantic artist Caspar ...

At first glance, Where Are We? (Neredeyiz?) appears out of place in an archaeology museum. The Erimtan Archaeology and Arts Museum’s first two floors are occupied by the permanent collection, laden ...

The Sakıp Sabancı Museum will come alive Saturday night with DJ sets and performances. Noise Media Art and DJ’s from Berlin prouduced by René Pawlowitz, known by the pseudonym Shed, DJ’s Nadia ...

A friend once confessed the frustration of setting a story in Istanbul, a city where not even the past stands still. The place you think you should start is never the place you actually start – and ...

Not the grandest choice of Ottoman finds in this spring's Islamic sale at Christie's, But here are a couple of items that caught the eye in Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, including Rugs and ...

Esra Özdoğan’s solo exhibition, The Ghost in the Machine, curated by Çağla Özbek, invites viewers into a world where the boundaries between life, death, and illusion are constantly shifting. The title ...