Landscape And Art

Üniversite öğrencileri inşaat atıklarını sanat eserine dönüştürdü

İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (İTÜ) "Landscape and Art" dersi ve Türkiye'de faaliyet gösteren inşaat firması Benesta iş birliğiyle düzenlenen "İleri Dönüşüm Tasarım: İnşaat Atıklarından Heykel Tasarımına" öğrenci yarışmasında ödüller sahiplerini buldu.

Ministry funds promotion of art week

Ministry funds promotion of art week

Turkey and the US unites through love of countries

ISTANBUL - Even when looking over her shoulder at the Bosphorus from the Ritz Carlton, it isn’t farfetched for Mona Tekin Diamond to talk about connecting with housewives in Anatolian villages. ’I’m not talking about upsetting husbands or women’s ways of doing things,’but we can help make more of their skills through development,’ she says.

Artists’ ironic takes on militarism

ISTANBUL - Outlet Independent Art Space, which has been a breath of fresh air in Istanbul’s contemporary art scene for its distinctive works by Turkish and foreign artists, is presenting its last exhibition of the season through July 4.

Artist, public to create together

FETHİYE - British artist Tina McCallan will bring the classic work of Turkish artist Turgut Zaim to the Çalış Carnival in Fethiye this year, where carnival-goers will be invited to paint a collaborative masterpiece based on Zaim’s "Yörükler."

No space, no time, no memory in theater play

ISTANBUL - Theater Company’s new play ’And God Said’ speaks beyond language and culture. It takes place in a timeless, unfamiliar location. It is set in a moment of post-apocalyptic doom, where an unnamed and completely devastating catastrophe has done away with the ability to communicate by erasing all sense of meaning, memory and time

Vintage views of 1900s Istanbul through old photos

ISTANBUL - The first part of the book gives a brief history of photography and the most important photographers from the 19th century in particular while the second part is an album with special photographs that have been reproduced here.

19th century Istanbul through old photographs

ISTANBUL - The first part of the book gives a brief history of photography and the most important photographers from the 19th century in particular while the second part is an album with special photographs that have been reproduced here.

Saint Laurent’s art treasures go on show

PARIS - Museum buyers, dealers, collectors, and wealthy art lovers have snapped up all 1,200 seats at Paris' Grand Palais, where the art treasures amassed over half a century by Yves Saint Laurent and his lifelong companion Pierre Berge went on show Saturday in a stage-set recreating the couple's ornate interiors

Singing a sweet song

ISTANBUL - Musing over his rural upbringing and the unpredictable turns in life, a departing musician shares his views on perseverance, prayer and politics.

Change to be promoted at the Istanbul Biennal

ISTANBUL - The conceptual framework of the 11th Istanbul International Biennial seeks 'to find a way out from the double deadlock of global neo-liberalism and local nationalism,’ and is inspired by Bertolt Brecht's 1928 song 'What keeps mankind alive?' The four female Croation curators of the biennial say the topic and its questions require urgent attention from today’s society.

New is in and so is old

ISTANBUL - Tamirane is a succesful restoration project that has tastefully turned a run down water pump station then repair shop into a hip restaurant, cafe, bar and performance space at Bilgi University’s SantralIstanbul campus

Deck the mall with Santa’s helpers

ISTANBUL - With Christmas tunes a-blaring from the ice skating rink and the aroma of pine trees and cookies, two plastic Santas sing to no one in particular. Welcome to Christmas in a Turkish mall where shopping for kids is a festive, if slightly surreal, good time...

Tricks of the trade: Illusion of costume

MOULINS - The latest exhibition at the National Centre for Stage Costume in Moulins, a town in central France, lifts the lid on the tricks of the trade, illustrated by around 100 costumes from its archives on the theme of flowers and gardens.

New businesses let kids’ play dictate the language

ISTANBUL - This holiday season expats are helping kids celebrate - with foreigners and Turks alike. No ordinary Santa's helpers, these entrepreneurs are succeeding in businesses that put kids first.

Young architects shape landscape, city & space

ISTANBUL - The Archiprix Turkey 2008 competition, where students strive to unify the three guiding principles of architecture: Durability, utility and beauty, is organized for the 13th time this year. Ali Dur, an Istanbul Technical University student, is the winner with a project called Urban Station.