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Who Really Owns Hagia Sophia?

Avatar photo by Michael Press July 28, 2020November 5, 2020

As the Turkish government announced that the Hagia Sophia will be converted back into a mosque, one of the primary responses worldwide has been to assert that the edifice constitutes “universal” heritage, that it belongs to all of us.

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Turkish Activist and Arts Philanthropist Osman Kavala Nears 1,000 Days in Prison

by Hakim Bishara July 24, 2020November 5, 2020

Kavala has been detained since 2017. Human rights activists have called for his release due to a lack of “facts, information, or evidence.”

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After 85 Years as a Museum, the Hagia Sophia Will Become a Mosque

by Hakim Bishara July 10, 2020November 5, 2020

Art historians and conservationists worry Turkish authorities might remove the centuries-old Byzantine mosaics that adorn it.

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Revisiting Photography’s First Road Trip

by Jennifer Hattam February 24, 2020February 24, 2020

Ten Turkish artists follow daguerreotypist Frédéric Auguste Antoine Goupil-Fesquet’s 180-year-old journey through the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Turkish Arts Philanthropist Acquitted, Then Detained Again

by Jennifer Hattam February 19, 2020February 20, 2020

Imprisoned since 2017, Osman Kavala was found not guilty of attempting to overthrow the government, but re-detained on new charges before he could even taste freedom.

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The Artist Walking Between Two Seas in Istanbul

by Jennifer Hattam February 13, 2020February 14, 2020

For years, artist Serkan Taycan has documented a nearly 40-mile route through the outskirts of Istanbul, which traverses rarely seen landscapes. He facilitates walks through the area, now at risk due to a proposed shipping canal.

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At the Istanbul Biennial, Pondering Just How Scared We All Are — or Should Be

by Mary Pelletier October 29, 2019November 14, 2019

In The Seventh Continent, installations don’t so much play off one another as lead to a feeling of fatigue, as one ponders a stream of disparate weighty topics in rapid succession.

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Cultural Boycott of Turkey Led by Major Scholars and Artists

by Hakim Bishara October 23, 2019October 24, 2019

A group of 280 leading scholars, writers, and artists — including Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, and Brian Eno — signed the petition in response to Turkey’s invasion of Kurdish regions in northeastern Syria.

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Controversy in Istanbul Underscores Rising Political Pressures on Turkish Art Scene

by Jennifer Hattam October 21, 2019October 24, 2019

A nationalist message from the head of the country’s biggest contemporary art fair stands in stark contrast to limits of expression on other segments of the Turkish art world.

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Collaging an Alternate Reality for Gay Life in Turkey

by Vanessa H. Larson October 17, 2019

By literally projecting himself into spaces typically reserved for heterosexual Turkish men, Sinan Tuncay has created a reality in which he takes part in rites of passage that he never experienced.

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A New Art Museum in Turkey Looks Beyond Istanbul

by Ayla Jean Yackley October 2, 2019October 3, 2019

Odunpazari Modern Museum, Turkey’s first purpose-built modern art museum, has opened in a college town hours from Istanbul, but can it shift the center of gravity in a country seeing a wave of new art museums?

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Turkish Filmmaker Chains Himself to Culture Ministry to Protest Confiscation of His Archive

by Hakim Bishara June 3, 2019June 3, 2019

Oktay Ince, a longtime video activist fighting to retrieve an archive worth 20 years of his work, was held in police custody and accused of terrorist propaganda after he chained himself to a pole outside the culture ministry in Ankara.

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