The arts diary

All events

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  Exhibition

  The Offline Viewing Room

  January 25, 2021 – June 19, 2021 Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 – 18:00

  artSümer, ISTANBUL

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  Performance

  Istanbul Music Festival 2021

  June 3, 2021 – June 21, 2021

  ISTANBUL

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  Online

  The Characters of Yusuf Franko: An Ottoman Bureaucrat’s Caricatures

  10th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speakers Mehmet Kentel & Özge Ertem

  June 23, 2021 Wednesday, 20:00 – 22:00 GMT +3
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  Online

  Revisiting Mihri Hanım (1885-1954): A Woman Painter in the late Ottoman Empire

  A BIAA Online Lecture by Gizem Tongo

  June 24, 2021 Thursday, 19:00 – 21:00 (Ankara UTC+3)
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  Yavuz Köse: Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts and Prints in the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna

  A unique source for the intellectual and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire

  June 24, 2021 16.30 (UK time)
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  Exhibition

  Eye on Nature

  Douglas McBride: Photography

  June 3, 2021 – June 26, 2021 11am – 4pm Monday to Saturday

  Unit Four: The Cornucopia Room, Scotland

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  Connoisseur

  Raziye Kubat: Night Flight

  May 20, 2021 – June 27, 2021

  DEPO, Tophane, Istanbul

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  Connoisseur

  Fatoş Irwen: Exceptional Times

  May 20, 2021 – June 27, 2021

  DEPO, Tophane, Istanbul

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  Connoisseur

  Necla Rüzgar: My Name was Written on Every Page

  May 16, 2021 – June 27, 2021

  Galeri Nev Ankara, Ankara

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  Conceptual art

  Deniz Gül: Scratch and Surface

  Seqential II

  April 13, 2021 – June 28, 2021

  SALT Galata, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

  The Turkish contemporary artist Deniz Gül speculates on the nature of words and translation.

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  Performance

  Istanbul Film Festival 2021

  April 1, 2021 – June 29, 2021

  ISTANBUL

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  Online, Performance

  Film Mor Womens’ Film Festival 2021

  June 16, 2021 – June 29, 2021
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  Kemal Seyhan

  May 13, 2021 – June 30, 2021

  Pi Artworks London, London

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  Exhibition

  Intersection VI

  Burak Dak, Gökhan Gökseven and Metin Alper Kurt

  April 22, 2021 – July 3, 2021 Monday – Friday, 12:00 –18:00

  x-ist, ISTANBUL

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  Online lecture

  Phanariots, Ottoman governance and the Greek Revolution

  New perspectives on life before the Tanzimat reforms

  July 8, 2021 Thursday, 20:00 – 22:00 +03
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  Art Fair

  Bodrum Art and Antique Fair (BAAF)

  July 7, 2021 – July 11, 2021

  Bodrum

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  Online

  Prinkipo Regattas as Urban-Social Activity in 19th century İstanbul

  11th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speaker Bengi Su Ertürkmen Aksoy

  July 13, 2021 Tuesday, 18:00 GMT
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  Online

  The Rock Inscriptions, Graffiti and Crosses from Quarry GO3C at Göktepe, Muğla District/Ancient Cari

  A BIAA Online Lecture by Paweł Nowakowski and Dagmara Wielgosz-Rondolino

  July 20, 2021 Tuesday, 19:00 – 20:30 +03
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  Online

  Editing & Interpreting the Liston Papers: Explorations in the Turkish Embassy Archives

  12th Levantine Heritage Foundation online lecture with guest speakers Valerie Kennedy, Patrick Hart, Dora Petherbridge

  July 22, 2021 Thursday, 20:00 – 22:00 +03
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  Group Exhibition

  Let It Be

  June 3, 2021 – July 25, 2021 Monday – Friday, 11:00 – 18:00

  C.A.M. Gallery, ISTANBUL

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  Exhibition

  Nevin Aladağ: Traces

  March 25, 2021 – July 25, 2021 Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 – 17:00

  Arter, ISTANBUL

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  Archive Exhibition

  Coulisse: Hagop Ayvaz

  A Chronicler of Theatre

  December 15, 2020 – July 25, 2021

  Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat

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  Online

  Opposition in Exile: Namık Kemal in London (1867-1870)

  Anglo-Turkish Society online lecture by Alp Eren Topal

  July 27, 2021 Tuesday, 20:00 – 22:00 +03
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  Exhibition

  Selma Gürbüz: This Place We Call World

  November 5, 2020 – July 31, 2021

  Istanbul Modern Temporary Space, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

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  Exhibition

  Preserving the Past

  A Selection from the Sadberk Hanım Museum

  December 16, 2020 – August 1, 2021 Tuesday – Friday, 11:00 – 17:00

  Meşher, ISTANBUL

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  Exhibition

  Mixer Sessions V

  June 15, 2021 – August 4, 2021 Monday – Friday, 11:00 – 18:00

  Mixer, ISTANBUL

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  Exhibition

  Memories of Humankind

  Stories from the Ottoman Manuscripts

  October 18, 2019 – August 7, 2021

  Istanbul Research Institute, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

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  A Question of Taste

  Group exhibition

  February 23, 2021 – August 8, 2021

  The Pera Museum, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

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  Connoisseur

  Etel Adnan: Impossible Homecoming

  April 6, 2021 – August 8, 2021

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  Talks and tours

  Climavore: Seasons Made to Drift

  April 7, 2021 – August 22, 2021

  SALT Beyoğlu, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

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  exhibition

  The Seventh Valley

  Group exhibition Alev Ebüzziya, Füsun Onur and many more

  June 18, 2021 – August 28, 2021

  Galeri Nev Istanbul

  Tuesday - Friday 11:00 - 18:30

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  Exhibition

  The Romance of Ruins

  The Search for Ancient Ionia, 1764

  May 19, 2021 – September 5, 2021 10:00 – 17:00 GMT

  London

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  Connoisseur

  Don McCullin

  September 16, 2020 – September 5, 2021

  United Kingdom

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  Online

  Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East

  September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021
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  Connoisseur

  Motif

  Design motifs from the Sadberk Hanım Museum

  November 9, 2020 – October 31, 2021

  Sadberk Hanım Museum, The Bosphorus, Istanbul

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  Talks and tours

  Expanding Islamic Art Historiography: The 1873 Vienna World’s Fair

  CALL FOR PAPERS

  November 12, 2021 – November 13, 2021

  Vienna

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  Group exhibition

  At the End of the Day

  October 2, 2020 – November 14, 2021

  Odunpazarı Modern Museum

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  Exhibition

  Architecture as Measure

  NOW RESCHEDULED FOR MAY-NOVEMBER 2021

  May 22, 2021 – November 21, 2021 10 am - 6 pm

  Venice

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  Exhibition

  Archival Memories: Marcell Restle’s Research in Anatolia and Beyond

  June 25, 2019 – November 29, 2021

  ANAMED Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, İstiklâl Caddesi, Istanbul

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  Connoisseur

  From the Reformation (Tanzimat) to the Republic

  Master Artists, Artist Students

  June 1, 2021 – November 30, 2021

  Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul

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  Exhibition

  Osman Hamdi Bey: Beyond Vision

  RE-OPENING ON JUNE 16

  June 16, 2020 – November 30, 2021

  Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul

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  [ELEKTROİZOLASYON] Unknown Parameter Extro-Record

  Emre Hüner

  [ELEKTROİZOLASYON]: Unknown Parameter Extro-Record

  March 25, 2021 – December 5, 2021

  Arter

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  Online

  Virtual seminars at the British Institute at Ankara

  Revisiting Mihri Hanım (1885-1954), June 24

  Tuesday, 19:00 – 20:30 GMT +3

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  Connoisseur

  Istanbul Modern Collection Exhibition 2020-2021

  June 30, 2020 – December 31, 2021

  Istanbul Modern, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

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  Online, Performance

  Borusan Philharmonic Orchestra (BİFO/BIPO)

  Concerts by the Borusan Philharmonic Orchestra, 2021

  Borusan Philharmonic Orchestra (BİFO/BIPO), The Bosphorus, Istanbul

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  Online, Talks and tours

  Ottomans Online

  June 14, 2021 – December 31, 2021
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  Online lecture

  Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans

  Mouradgea d’Ohsson and His Masterpiece Tableau général de l’Empire othoman

  12:30pm in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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  Connoisseur, Online

  The Sakıp Sabancı Museum looks back

  Online Exhibitions

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  Exhibition

  For Eyes That Listen

  Arter

  September 10, 2020 – January 2, 2022

  Arter, Dolapdere

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  Talks and tours

  William Kynan-Wilson: Frames and Fashion

  Ottoman Costume Books as Material Texts

  The Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, United Kingdom

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  Seminar

  Travellers in Ottoman Lands:

  The Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond

  August 24–26, 2022

  Bosnia-Herzegovina

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  Online Lecture

  The Lily and the Crescent: Louis XIV and the Ottomans, Culture, Commerce and Crusades

  An online lecture by Philip Mansel on December 15, 2020

  Tuesday, 18:00–20:00 GMT
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  Online lecture

  Mothers and Children of the Early Turkish Republic

  An online lecture by Eve Lacey on January 19, 2021

  Tuesday, 21:00 – 23:00 GMT+3
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  Online

  Entangled Epidemiologies: The Discourse of Disease in Victorian Britain and Late Ottoman Istanbul

  A Lecture by Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr on February 16, 2021

  Tuesday, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT
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  Online

  Shipwreck History of the Theodosian Harbour, Istanbul

  Online talk by Prof D Ufuk Kocabaş on February 16, 2021

  March 9, 2021 – December 31, 2022 Tuesday, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT