Lucrezia Borgia Opera rises again with Mike Figgis

HATİCE UTKANLONDON – Hürriyet Daily News Italian composer Donizetti’s world famous opera ‘Lucrezia Borgia,’ first staged in 1833, is now at the London Coliseum with the interpretation of film director Mike Figgis. The English director’s ‘Lucrezia Borgia’ raises eyebrows with its unique presentation of the erotic and dark side of this well-known opera by combining […]

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Abant offers peaceful, romantic winter vacation

With the solitude provided by its lakes and forests, Abant in the northern province of Bolu is one of the prime spots for Turks wanting to commune with nature. The Yedigöller area in Abant, might be the best choice to discover the nature and find serenity given the chaotic city life of Istanbul or Ankara. […]

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Labor comes before the lens for ‘Refinery’ exhibition

January 8-28 Sezgin Güvel and Ahmet Yakar’s photography exhibition “Refinery,” which takes industrial labor as an artistic focus, is continuing at the Istanbul Association of Photography and Cinema, or İFSAK. “We would like to reflect the life of working people in the middle of melting metals, flames and smoke. We photographed how the red and […]

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Perceptions of still lifes changing with Yağız Özgen

The meaning of “still life,” “digital images” and “existence” is about to change with a new exhibition at Sanatorium. Yağız Özgen’s solo exhibition entitled “Still Life” questions the digital life in a “real” way as the typical still-life paintings that we have seen for many years are changing with the artist’s new works. Still lifes […]

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“Whole City” in the photographs of six artists

Curated by Matthias Flügge, an exhibition titled “Whole City,” dedicated to the German art photography movement and showing at Istanbul’s Milli Reasürans Art Gallery, takes its name from a series of works by Max Ernst. Instead of approaching the art of photography digitally, or through other technologically advanced means, works in the exhibition are pure, […]

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