Visual arts

Starting today, Istanbul's Pilevneli Gallery presents its selection of works, titled "Presentation Room - I," through Feb. 19, 2021.

The display was shaped by the gallery's selection of works planned for Contemporary Istanbul, the physical edition of which was postponed to 2021.

Gifts dating back 1,800 years that have been given to the dead throughout history have been unearthed in a grave in the ancient city of Hadrianaupolis in the Ezkipazar district of the northern province of Karabük.

Tourists in California are flocking to yet another metal monolith that popped up on top of Pine Mountain, days after similar pillars in Romania and Utah were removed from their posts. 

Dozen of local hikers made the trek to the top of the mountain in Atascadero to snap a photo with the pillar, which mysteriously showed up on Wednesday. 

Curated by Neyran Turan and coordinated by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the Pavilion of Turkey will present "Architecture as Measure" at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, titled "How Will We Live Together?" and will take place from May 22 to Nov. 21, 2021.

In the northwestern province of Çanakkale, 11 artists from different disciplines have come together to create magnificent sculptures belonging to Greek mythology in their workshop in Küçük Sanayi Sitesi (Small Industrial Site) that will be exhibited in South Korea's giant aquarium.

Some artists anticipate the future without even being consciously aware of it themselves. The self-indulgent individualism of 1960s California, the youths splashing around in swimming pools in David Hockney's iconic paintings seem like they anticipated a future in which the working class adopted all the trapping of middle-class pleasures.

Restoration and excavation work has resumed at the Saint Simon Monastery in southern Turkey after a pause of 60 years, and the site will host tourists once it is completed.

The monastery, located in Hatay province, is believed to have been built in the 6th century by Saint Simon.

A figure of a "Seraphim Angel" on a ceiling of the Hagia Sophia Mosque has come to light on dismantling a scaffold that was inside the mosque for about seven years.

"We have completely demounted the scaffold today," said the officials on Nov. 22.

Retired Mehmet Keleş, who has been working voluntarily in the excavations of the Holy Apostles Church that he found in his garden in the eastern province of Hatay's Arsuz district, is happy to contribute his bit for bringing the cultural heritage to light.

A carpet trader, who collects hundreds of handmade carpets and rugs from across Anatolia, lays them out in the sun in Turkey's top tourism destination Antalya.