Arts

Formed just three years ago, the Allegra Ensemble, a music band made up of eight women, has attracted praise, performing concerts in various languages in Turkey and around the worldThe Allegra Ensemble opera, founded by eight women in Ankara, has brought together classical and popular music in a multi-lingual collaboration that has enchanted audiences in Turkey and around the world. 

American adult stars gathered in Las Vegas to get informed on the latest trends of the industry and decided to celebrate Halloween.

The stars wore tiny costumes managing to cover up only the important bits and posed proudly and sensually.

The Middle East's insistence on being a major actor in the art scene carries political reasons: The image of a modern state is often built by the international art events that a country hosts Social sciences fail to explain how the Middle East ranks the bottom of socio economic development index when its share in oil revenue is unrivaled.

Former Spice Girl-cum-fashion designer Victoria Beckham has come under fire for presenting a slew of skeleton-like models on the catwalk. In 2010, she had said that she would ban unhealthily-thin models but appears to have backdracked on the promise.

Social media took fire after the show, criticising her choice of models.

Agence France-Presse photographer Bülent K?l?ç was honoured Sept. 5 at photojournalism's biggest annual festival for dramatic images of refugees fleeing across the Turkish border. K?l?ç, 35, won the Visa d'Or for News, the most prestigious award handed out at the "Visa Pour L'Image" festival in Perpignan, southwestern France.
 

Akbank Sanat will open its new season of art with a world-renowned exhibition.

Less than a third of the characters in top-grossing Hollywood films are female, and women directors are much rarer still, according to a study that bemoaned Tinseltown's lack of diversity.

British-American movie star and actor Patrick Macnee, made famous by the hit show “The Avengers” has passed, aged 93 in California.

Despite his long career in both theater and the cinema, Daniel Patrick Macnee will live on in showbiz history as the eccentric and brilliant secret agent John Steed in the hit 60’s TV show The Avengers.

A photoshopped composition revealed how the most desirable woman would look, according to women.

Apparently, age matters little, since three parts of this “perfect” body belong to women aged 45 or more.

The final result combines the bust of Helen Mirren, Jennifer Aniston’s tummy, and Elle Macpherson’s long legs.

If you are living in Istanbul, or you have somehow happened to visit this beautiful historical city, you now have the chance of seeing some giant paintings made by mural artists from across the world.

The aim is to enliven some of the more subdued areas of Istanbul, replacing grey walls with enormous pictures, each telling a different story.