The curtain rose to reveal an enormous sculpture of a horse’s head, equalling the height of the theatre and encased in a cube of LED-lit scaffolding. This was the opening night of Handel’s Tamerlano, ...

On October 15 I made my way to Beyoğlu for the opening of an exhibition of paintings by the artist Rahşan Düren entitled Verwegenheit, a word which I believe means ‘audacity’ or ‘boldness’ in German.

Tickets from Biletix.com. Price: 600TL. Important note: The gates to the church courtyard will be closed at 20:30, and no audience members will be admitted after that time.

On October 15 I made my way to Beyoğlu in the evening rush hour, braving the traffic on Refik Saydam Caddesi, the road between Taksim Square and Şişhane that passes below the wall of the British ...

Cornucopia’s choice: Turkey with a twist – the best current shows in Istanbul and around the world ...

To say that Aleksandar Serdar’s recital on November 13 will be a challenging one would be an understatement. He will need wrists of iron for this one. I wish him Kolay gelsin! Aleksandar Serdar is a ...

Dirimart Dolapdere welcomes Peter Zimmermann’s sixth solo exhibition at the gallery. ‘Contact’ emphasizes the relationship between sight, touch, and digital abstraction aesthetics. His work is digital ...

Behind the painter Fausto Zonaro stood an extraordinary photographer, Elisa Zonaro, whose visual record of the Ottoman capital between 1890 and 1910 is brought together here for the first time.

Saturday 02 November, 16:00 / Wednesday 06 November, 20:00 Tickets from Biletinial. Prices: 170TL, 240TL, 315TL, 470TL, 635TL. Atatürk Cultural Centre (Atatürk ...

All four of the performers at this concert have extensive experience of playing improvised music. In my blog on a concert at the Bova Club on February 18, I said the following: ‘As the ...

Opening night. The triptych in the background is titled Lapus Lazuli by Ahmet Doğu İpek. Galerist kicked off the 2024-2025 art season with the exhibition Distilled From Scattered Blue, curated by ...

HALI offers their first tour in Turkey in partnership with The Black Tent Project. Timed to take place over the fortnight before the ICOC XV conference in Istanbul.