A scholar residing in Wallachia’s capital city of Bucharest in 1719 observed in a letter to his friend, a Patriarch: “All Phanar is here; I no longer recall Istanbul.” By “Phanar,” he was referring to ...

A comprehensive, six-decade retrospective of the artist and activist’s pioneering conceptual, performance, and participatory art. The name comes from a concert and show presented by Yoko Ono in Kyoto ...

The tenure of the Halkevleri (‘People’s Houses’, 1932–51) spanned most of the single-party period of the early Turkish Republic (1923–46), and their work took place during a widespread public ...

The Turkish Republic turns 100 today – not just another candle on the cake, but a reliving of a moment of defiance. A nascent state claimed a very different destiny from that envisaged for it by the ...

Just one of those days: the Galata Bridge seen through driving rain. Faik Şenol (1912–81), one of the heroes of early Republic photography, acted as Atatürk’s personal photographer, is the focus of ...

Dilek Sert Erdoğan, known as Turkey’s most powerful soul vocalist, has a voice that is described as ‘black satin’. Her first album, entitled ‘Moments’, appeared in 2013; all the songs on it were ...

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 ...

Towering monoliths in contrasting shades of black and white make for an intimidating atmosphere at the Pera Museum’s latest exhibition, Isabel Muñoz: A New Story. Spanning two floors of the museum, it ...

the aubergine or lamb chop people were eating a decade ago rather than being part of an ever-evolving tradition. There have been attempts to educate a British public that there is more to Turkish ...

Many will have heard of MI5 & MI6 but probably not of MI9, the agency responsible for helping escapes from Axis-held territory. Lieut. Cdr Noël C Rees OBE RNVR, born into a wealthy Levantine family ...

This year’s İKSV Istanbul Music Festival, the 53rd in the series, is scheduled to run from June 11 to 26. Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı or ...

Pascale Marthine Tayou born in Cameroon in 1966 is based in Belgium and started to exhibit his work in the 1990’s during the political turmoil in West Africa. Tayou uses fabric, wood, plastic, glass, ...