In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, artist Lubna Chowdhary talks to Shwetal A. Patel about her working practices during the lockdown as a ceramic artist, her relationship with various materials, the challenge of diversity in the art world as well as her first solo show in India to be inaugurated in
The newly opened ‘74Escape Gallery & Store highlights the works of Turkish contemporary ceramic artists and designers while presenting a journey into our culture.The creative contemporary scene in Turkey –both in design and art– has been bustling for quite some time now. Both up and coming young artists and established names produce works that usually
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, designer and critic Gökhan Karakuş, and New York poet, filmmaker, and librarian Mustafa Sakarya talk about the nature of “Spatial Stories” in storytelling by a discussion of American conceptual artist Robert Smithson in his multidisciplinary series of works in landscape,
Here’s a curated weekly ’74Picks round-up of the best to read, watch, listen, and do this week. From Nick Cave’s exclusive digital concert and Werner Herzog’s new feature to our favorite titles and newly opened ‘74Escape Gallery & Store in Bodrum! LISTEN: Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace Watch Nick Cave perform solo
In this episode of Art on the Verge, Founder and Director of the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Bryce Wolkowitz and award-winning art historian, Founder & Chief Curator of Artmuse and Artmuse Selects Natasha Schlesinger discuss the joyful experience of seeing art, the power of social media in the art business, how virtual and physical experience should
For SEVENTYFOUR’S first new STUDIO VISITS feature, we were invited into the quarantine
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, artist Dayanita Singh talks to Shwetal A. Patel about her three-decade journey in photography, her bookmaking practice, and its performative aspects, the Mobile Museums she produces as well as her surprise book release at Museum of Innocence in Istanbul. “I don’t want to be a
In this episode of Art on the Verge, Founder and Director of the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Bryce Wolkowitz and Visual Artist and Storyteller Oliver Jeffers discuss the art of storytelling, the relationship between memory and identity in Jeffers’ work, the imaginary borders of the world as well as his first solo exhibition For All We
Amanda Wall is an American artist who was born in Oregon, and now lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She is a self-taught painter, who’s vivid figurative work portrays human form in domestic scenarios, bordering on a surrealist lens.
In the third episode of Art on the Verge, Founder and Director of the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Bryce Wolkowitz talks with painter and art educator in design and one of the most influential graphic designers in the world, Paula Scher about her early career, her inimitable approach to design, her thoughts about the shift in
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, Diana Winston, one of the best-known teachers of mindfulness and the author of The Little Book of Being, talks with New York-based writer Hande Oynar. Exploring the work she’s done with the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, Winston gives
Demet Müftüoğlu Eşeli is the co-founder and creative head of ISTANBUL’74, the international IST. Arts & Culture Festival, ‘74STUDIO and ’74Escape. Born in Istanbul, Demet spent many years in New York City, before returning to her home city to establish her own creative initiatives.
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, founders of Cave Bureau, Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi talk to Gabriel Kozlowski, architect and assistant curator for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2021, about colonialism in relation to the current social and political climate,
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, interior designer and founder of Zeynep Fadıllıoğlu, Zeynep Fadıllıoğlu talks with creative director Antonio Monfreda about the manifold façade of creativity, the future of reimagined indoor spaces as well as cities as a source for inspiration. “Creativity does not apply
In the second episode of Art on the Verge, the Founder and Director of the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Bryce Wolkowitz and Photographer Stephen Wilkes discuss what led Wilkes to the field of photography, his early works as well as challenges of being a filmmaker and its difference with photography. “Talent is only ten percent
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, founder of Earth Yoga Studio and the School of Embodied Poetry, yoga instructor Shannon Paige Kenney talks to ISTANBUL’74 Communications & Project Director Leyla Karakaş about her personal journey with yoga and how yoga can help us stay strong mentally
A brand new ‘New Normal’ is upon us. By ‘us’ I mean Madrid, where I live, in particular, and humankind in general. A New Normal which, as opposed to its earlier reiterations (2008 and 2012, anyone?), will have an equally immense impact not only in the future of global economics but also in our overall
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, architectural scientist and building technology researcher Mae-ling Lokko talks to Gabriel Kozlowski, architect and assistant curator for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2021, about different aspects of Lokko’s work in relation to the current social
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, curator, writer, and educator Vasıf Kortun speaks with designer Defne Koz about the ever-growing role of technology in changing the meaning of craftsmanship, the relationship between artificial intelligence and design, and how the current introduction of AI is affecting design
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, artist and photographer Gail Albert Halaban talks to ISTANBUL‘74 Communications Assistant Işıl İlkter about the period when New York City was in lockdown, her ongoing project Out My Window and the concept of being neighbors as well as different techniques
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, co-author of the New York Times bestseller “The Tools” and psychotherapist Barry Michels, and three-times TEDxWomen producer, coach and psychotherapist Kristan Sargeant talk to ISTANBUL’74 Communications & Project Director Leyla Karakaş about how to deal with the negative psychological impact
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, artist duo Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset talk to art writer Osman Can Yerebakan about how we all need human interaction, their latest exhibition recently opened in Koenig Gallery, Berlin, and the strategy of displacement. “I am hopeful that [the
In this episode of “Nasıl Bir Yarın?”, Artist, Educator and Archivist Murat Germen talks to Artist, Theorist, Art Historian and Academic Emre Zeytinoğlu, about the state of art against technology in terms of aesthetics, the ways how to reach the ideal, and the conditions that must be present for the artist to be able to
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, media artist, the Artistic Director and Co-CEO of Ars Electronica Gerfried Stocker, and Art Historian Dr. Edward Shanken talk about manufactured realities, media art as social politics, social and cultural parts of this digital revolution as well as Ars Electronica.
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