Pablo Picasso

Hailed by many as the writer of hope, Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet, with his profound optimism, may be just what the world needs now to face down the era of coronavirus.

A lot has been said about Manolis Glezos, the proud Greek who was the first to publicly stand up to the Nazis and humiliate Hitler by taking down the swastika flag from the Acropolis.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in the southern Athens neighborhood of Kallithea presents a special exhibition dedicated to Pablo Picasso in the form of an audiovisual journey through the early years of the artist's career, between 1900 and 1907, which marked the beginning of the cubist movement in painting.

The "Ara Güler Photography Exhibition," which shows photos by Turkey's world-famous photography artist, the late Ara Güler, to the world, opened on Jan. 29 in the Italian capital Rome.

After London, Paris, Kyoto and New York, Rome is the fifth city where the exhibition is on show at the Trastevere Museum.

The enduring influence of the Minoan civilization on fashion, food, music and art is the subject of a high-level event at the Museum of London on Tuesday, November 5, which has been dedicated to Sophia Kokosalaki, the 47-year-old fashion designer of Cretan heritage who died earlier this month.

Over the last two weeks at least 20,000 people visited a show spotlighting the works of famed artist Pablo Picasso in Turkey's Aegean region.   

"Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people have to understand," Pablo Picasso once said.

As part of the "Picasso-Méditerranee" project, İzmir's Arkas Art Center is hosting works by one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso.

The masterpieces of world-famous painter Pablo Picasso will be exhibited in Turkey's western İzmir province on Sept.18-Jan.5, 2020.

A masterpiece painted by Pablo Picasso that a German Jewish businessman was allegedly forced to sell to fund his escape from the Nazis can stay at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York rather than be returned to the businessman's heirs, a court ruled on June 26.