The Italian-Slovenian pianist Alexander Gadjiev, renowned for his ‘improvisatory instincts’, plays Mussorgsky’s 1874 Pictures at an Exhibition while Turkish dancer Yaman Okur, a world-champion ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pianist Emir Ersoy is to be accompanied by bass guitarist Eylem Pelit, drummer Volkan Öktem, vocalist and percussionist Aleixi Rivera Contreras and trumpeter Sercan Kerpiççiler. Their programme is to ...

Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Gümüşsuyu Mah., Mete Cad. No 2 (i.e., Taksim Square), Beyoğlu, 34437 Istanbul In the first half, the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, under ...

The press release for ‘This is a Pair of Scissors’ describes it as ‘an introspective journey into the traces of the past – both lost and rediscovered – unfolding through the continuous flow of time ...

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 ...

Both Sotheby’s and Christie’s hold Islaimic and Indian art sales this week. And Sotheby's is also holding its Orientialist Art sale plus an important single-collection sale of watercolours by David ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursThe recital then continued with another Chopin Nocturne – this time, Opus 48 No 1 in C minor, a piece that starts off in a rather portentous, declamatory style but ...

From my point of view, what left the most lasting impression from this concert was the other-wordly atmosphere that Sioned Williams’s playing generated. It is not easy to imagine oneself looking down ...

This recital focusses on the Romantic lieder (German art songs) of Johannes Brahms (1833-97), performed by members of the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet company.

This tile panel was originally located in the men’s hot room. The eight rectangular tiles are adorned with Persian couplets in nasta‘līq script from a poem highlighting the hamam's significance in ...