Abeer Jebril, a Palestinian artist, portrays ballerinas in pain to raise awareness of the social and political difficulties of Gaza women amid conflict.
The last Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001 saw women brutally suppressed, as well as music banned and the destruction of artworks and heritage, including dynamiting ancient statues of the Buddha.
Workers in harnesses spent several days enveloping the 50-metre, 19th century arch in a silvery blue, recyclable plastic curtain, in a tribute to late artist Christo.
Sotheby’s has won the rights to auction off the Macklowe art collection, which includes works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko.
Through these blockchain-enabled digital assets, artists can both maintain ownership of their work and gain royalties from sales. Is this the future of contemporary art?
Artweeks@Akaretler, a bi-annual art exhibition taking place in Besiktas’ row houses in Istanbul, celebrates its new edition between September 8-19, 2021.
Sales of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) - virtual images of anything from popular internet memes to original artwork - have swept the art world in recent months.
A total of 3,040 objects from the collection of cultural works returned to the country after the war will be examined.
Etel Adnan, the daughter of a Turkish officer and an Ottoman Greek mother, born in Lebanon with roots in Turkey, France and the US, has a colourful and thorough retrospective at Istanbul’s Pera Museum, called ‘Impossible Homecoming.’
"Quantum" by Kevin McCoy, a simple geometric animation, is the first known non-fungible token, according to auction house Sotheby's.
A brainchild of art dealer Aidan Meller of Oxford, UK, Ai-Da is the product of a communal effort and has already sold paintings to people who may possibly be amused by owning art made by a machine.
A poet, intellectual and philosopher, Iqbal sought to arouse the Muslim world from a long and deep slumber. Though his works have been neglected in recent decades, he continues to inspire and move readers around the globe.
Subscribe to our Youtube channel for all latest in-depth, on the ground reporting from around the world.
Copyright © 2021 TRT World.
Like
Follow