Through the Magnifier
If you are Turkish, or you’ve stayed in Turkey for some time, it is most likely that you’ve visited İstanbul. It’s a must-do to walk the streets of that mysterious and beautiful city, and
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Guillotine Tree
I must confess that I am, once again, in a pinch — for the last two days, I have been searching to and fro for a set of vials that I require for a
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Madness and the Damage Done: The Birth of Blackjazz
This week we are featuring the Norwegian experimental blackjazzists Shining in the music recommendations. Shining was formed in 1999 as a jazz quartet. Their first album was a very well-composed, complex and technical, but
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“Mom, Mom, Mom, Am I… Am I a Barbarian?”
This sentence, if you can mentally create the echo-like effect from the commercial, should be familiar to at least some of you. It’s the tagline for the 13th İstanbul Biennial; you can hear it
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In Search of a Voice
It has long been a topic of discussion as to whether the arts have much to do with the evolution of a nation. Some nations that have a positive answer to this question —
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Journey to the Center of the Grunge
Our journey starts in the mid-80s. As opposed to the general misconception, the founders of grunge were neither Nirvana nor Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam or Soundgarden. Actually, it’s really hard to point to
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