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Gallery walkabout: Beşiktaş
We are in unassuming Beşiktaş this week for our gallery walk, where most of the galleries are showing interesting group shows, with a few solo shows also in the mix. Again, as many of the galleries...
View ArticleIstanbul Biennial news
The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) has recently announced that the 14th Istanbul Biennial will take place between September 5th and November 1st, 2015, and that it will be curated by...
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Gallery walkabout: Beyoğlu
We are in Beyoğlu (seen from above in the main photo) this week for our gallery walk, with two solo shows, two group shows and a fascinating research exhibition on offer. Again, some of the galleries...
View ArticleEat for a good cause
This Friday (June 27), a dinner to raise funds for the Syrian plight will be held in the beautiful gardens of the Crimean Memorial Church. The organisers are hoping to raise $1,000 or more for two...
View ArticleOpen call for Moon and Stars Project grants
There is just over a month to apply for The American Turkish Society's Moon and Stars Project autumn grants. The programme provides project and residency grants for burgeoning and established artists....
View ArticleTurkey adds two more Unesco sites
Bursa and Pergamon have been added to Turkey’s nine other Cultural Sites on the Unesco World Heritage list following a 10-day meeting in Doha which concluded on June 25. The citations are for ‘Bursa...
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Gallery walkabout: Beyoğlu round 2
On one of our last gallery walks for the season before some close up shop for the summer, we are back in Beyoğlu for five group shows, most of which don’t have a subject or a theme. Duygu Nazlı Akova,...
View ArticleTime for jazz
Cool off with some hot jazz: the 21st Istanbul Jazz Festival opened yesterday with a concert by FOURinthePOCKET, a band formed by young Istanbul-based musicians, and will run until July 16. As in...
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Gallery walkabout: Karaköy/Tophane
For our last gallery walk of the season, we are in Istanbul’s gallery hub, Karaköy/Tophane, for five diverse group shows. Hale Tenger, ‘Balloons on the Sea’, 2011, 7-channel, video installation,...
View ArticleDr Andrew Mango (1926–July 6, 2014)
I walk most days past Aslanyataği Street in the Cihangir neighbourhood of Istanbul – which translates as the Lion’s Den. It is a tiny loop of an alleyway and I know it better for a particular...
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One hot, dry summer
This week, the water in my apartment in Beşiktaş was turned off, for at least an hour, every day. Tuesday proved particularly challenging as the water was off almost the entire day. As reported in the...
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Summer art
As many of the city’s galleries close up shop for the summer, our gallery walks are also on a hiatus until September. But some galleries, museums and art institutions are still hosting a plethora of...
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‘Through the Looking Glass’ at ARTER
As usual, ARTER delivers in spades: its current exhibition delves – with precision and ingenuity – into the 50-year career of one of Turkey’s most prominent contemporary artists, Füsun Onur....
View ArticlePera Palace: one of the best hotels for book lovers
Oyster.com has named Pera Palace Hotel, Jumeriah one of the eight best hotels for book lovers. Located in the cosmopolitan Tebebaşı district of Beyoğlu and dating back to 1892, the Pera Palace...
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A portrait of Turkey
How does Turkey look today? That is perhaps the question you can ask yourself when visiting the new exhibition at Istanbul Modern’s Photography Gallery. Curated by Sena Çakırkaya, On the Road brings...
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Lavish landscapes
The Mimar Sinan Fine Art University’s ambitious Paintings and Sculpture Museum officially opened its doors last Thursday with an exhibition of landscapes by some of Turkey’s greatest artists. Expert...
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Soft power
A lion with two arrows sticking out of its neck marches proudly onwards; a sphinx sprouts a dragon's head from its rear; a pot of fragrant stew is taken towards the King by a servant girl; a chariot...
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Japan in Turkey
When the Japanese, New York-based artist Ai Kijima spent spring this year in Istanbul, she enlightened me about something rather interesting: the presence of the Japanese community in Turkey and the...
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Greek isles, dire straits
Islamic nero, a work by Alexis Veroukas, is from a group exhibition entitled Nepo/Water, opening this evening in the Old Primary School of Chora on Patmos (until August 23). The show celebrates water...
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Music for your eyes
The current temporary exhibition at Istanbul Modern explores the relationship between visual arts and music in Turkey. In the scope of its 10th anniversary celebrations, it seems very fitting that the...
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