25th Levantine Heritage Foundation Zoom lecture gathering with guest speaker Prof. Uri M. Kupferschmidt. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Middle East experienced a period of ...

In this, one of the ‘Sunday Recitals’ at the AKM, Ercan Irmak, a celebrated player of the ney (a Turkish end-blown flute made of hollow cane or giant reed that is used extensively in Sufi music), will ...

The pianist Toros Can, who trained in Ankara, London, the USA and Eskişehir, won first place at the 3rd Orléans International Piano Competition, which focuses on music of the 20th century. Prof. Can ...

If Norman Stone and Professor Ali Doğramacı, then rector of Bilkent University, had not shared a flash of inspiration during an international conference in Ankara in 1995, the love affair between the ...

After a three-year pause, Istanbul Modern’s ‘Museum Talks’ series continues this month with Italy. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the Director of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, will ...

Intense and sustained research focussed on a well-defined, circumscribed region, across several decades and through numerous archaeological and palaeoenvironmental projects has created a uniquely rich ...

(doors open 20:30). Price: 650TL. Bookings: [email protected]. Nardis Jazz Club, Nardis Jazz Club (Nardis Caz Klübü), Bereketzade Mah., Galata Kulesi Sok. No 8, Kuledibi, Beyoğlu, 34421 Istanbul.

These lines, part of a poem by the multidisciplinary artist Sine İçli, are positioned in the lower-left corner of the opening wall – an ode to clay and its transformative process. This poem introduces ...

Don McCullin and his wife, Catherine Fairweather, take in the dramtic view at dawn as our new travelling companion and local Hüseyin Bey nonchalantly strolls, feeling very much at home on the fire ...

While the Dust Quickly Falls, was published for Bucak’s titular exhibition at Kunsthaus Dresden in 2022, and considers the relationships between political violence, environmental destruction, and ...

Art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire (circa 330–1453), but less known are the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful ...

On June 8 I took a train on the Marmaray line to Söğütlüçeşme, the station in the valley behind Kadıköy through which the Kurbağalıdere Stream passes on its way to join the Sea of Marmara.