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‘City Panels’ project records architectural memory
Art historian Nurtaç Buluç brings together ceramic, relief and mosaic panels found in architectural structures between 1950 and 1990 in the database "City Panels" to shed light on the cultural memory of the period.
Buluç explained that the idea of creating a database arose from her interest in ceramics and mosaics, adding that architecture and the arts are an integral part of life.
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Aşık Veysel’s family collection on display
On the 50th anniversary of his death, folk singer Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu's family collection, including the mask taken from his face, will be exhibited at the Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM).
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Travel writers pick ‘best 10 bays of blue voyage’
Turkish travel writers have listed the most 10 beautiful coves one can visit during a blue voyage in the Aegean and the Mediterranean Seas, with the Cove of Bedri Rahmi topping the list.
The cove in the southwestern province of Muğla's Göcek neighborhood is named after famous Turkish poet, writer, and painter Bedri Rahmi Eyüpoğlu, who died in 1975 at the age of 64.
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Pera Museum features works from Nobel Collection
Pera Museum presents a new exhibition, "And Now The Good News," bringing together a comprehensive selection of works from the Annette and Peter Nobel Collection.
The exhibition focuses on the dialogue between art and the mass media, taking the invention of the printing press in the late 18th century and the formation of periodic journalism in the 19th century as a starting point.
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Oganaki’s first solo show at Piramid Sanat
Oganaki's first solo show at Piramid Sanat: Istanbul's Piramid Sanat hosts the first solo exhibition by miniature diorama artist Ogan Akıncı, known as Oganaki.
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Özdemir Asaf: A gentle poet
Turkey on Jan. 28 commemorated Özdemir Asaf, a unique poet of contemporary Turkish literature, on the 39th anniversary of his death.
Born in Ankara, the Turkish capital, on June 11, 1923, Asaf was known to be a man with gentle characteristics and love for life.
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Blue voyage on turquoise coasts
When famous Turkish Poet Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu went on a blue cruise in the 1950s with his literary colleagues, he described it as "a fairytale, untold, unwritten, unillustrated…"
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Art manifestos from Turkey in new book
"Why Are We 'Artists'? - 100 World Art Manifestos," newly published by Penguin Books, is a collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the world between 1909 and 2012, bringing together activists, post-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and a host of other voices.
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Moscow show provides glimpse into modern Turkish art
The State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow has opened a special exhibition project titled "The Bilge Collection" until April 2, providing a glimpse at contemporary Turkish art in the Russian capital.
The exhibition aims to provide an insight into Turkish art through the eyes of Muhsin Bilge (1944 - 2014), a renowned Turkish collector and a passionate lover and patron of art.
Love at the heart of Bedri Rahmi expo in İzmir
"My black mulberry, my forked darky, my gypsy,
What more will you be to me, my odd one, queer one,
My smiling quince, my weeping pomegranate,
My baby, my stallion, my wife."
Turkey's best-known love poem, "My Mulberry" by Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, is at the heart of the retrospective exhibition by the poet-painter in İzmir's Folkart Gallery.
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