CULTURE

Frida Kahlo’s 1949 self-portrait “El sueño (La cama)” sold for $54.7 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York, setting a new record for the most expensive artwork by a female artist sold at auction. The sale surpasses Georgia O’Keeffe’s…

The childhood home of world weightlifting legend Naim Süleymanoğlu in Mestanlı, Bulgaria, has been restored and turned into a museum under a 2021 TİKA project. The official opening takes place today with Türkiye’s Culture and…

Ayhan Güneş, one of only eight philography artists in Türkiye certified by the Ministry of Culture, represents Elazığ in national and international exhibitions. Güneş has produced more than 500 works since being introduced by the craft in…

Türkiye’s first thematic Cheese Museum in Kars has attracted 82,060 visitors in the first 11 months of 2025, drawing strong interest from both domestic and international tourists. The museum showcases the production process of…

The long-debated origin of cağ kebab, claimed by both Erzurum and Artvin, has been traced back a thousand years to the Kipchak Turks, according to new research. Artvin Çoruh University professor Hüdayi Ercoşkun stated that both cities…

Thailand celebrated its traditional Loy Krathong, or Floating Lantern Festival, with dazzling colors and lights on November 5. Locals gathered by rivers and lakes to release handmade lanterns, or “krathongs,” into the water with…

The 23rd Turkish Festival in Washington, D.C., drew large crowds of Americans and Turkish citizens, showcasing Turkish cuisine, art, and folk performances. Visitors enjoyed dishes like döner, baklava, and Turkish coffee while folk dance…

In Hebron, a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank known as the “World City of Handicrafts” since 2016, artisans are fighting to preserve their centuries-old crafts amid war, blockades, and collapsing tourism. Once bustling with…

Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art,” the Swedish Academy announced. The…

In a 76-year-old workshop in Lefkoşa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, 66-year-old craftsman Özkan Öke keeps the nearly forgotten art of wicker chair making alive. Having inherited the shop from his father, who opened it in…