Arts

A street in Şanlıurfa, where historical stone houses have been restored and turned into workshops, has become a popular spot for local and foreign tourists visiting the historical southeastern city. The workshops on mosaic, wood carving and silver processing attract the attention of visitors in the street where colorful images emerge.

Nowadays, some people read satirical and political cartoons in the newspaper or on their smartphones while sitting on the toilet, but in Antalya's Antiocheia Ad Gragum, such cartoons were illustrated on mosaics on the floor below the toilets in the ancient city's bathhouse.

After nine years of hard archaeological work, visitors to southern Turkey will soon be able to see a huge intact mosaic some 1,300 years old with their own eyes.       

Andy Warhol transcended a photographer's copyright by transforming a picture of a vulnerable and uncomfortable Prince into an artwork that made the singer an "iconic, larger-than-life figure," a judge ruled July 1.

The most famous painting in the world, Mona Lisa, will be relocated while the Louvre's salon in which she is exhibited is under repair, France Press Agency reported.

Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece will be transported less than 100 paces away to neighbouring Galerie Médicis on the night of July 16, said museum director Jean-Luc Martinez.

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.

The powerful allure of the ancient Greek world for Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is the subject of the Museum of Cycladic Art's latest big exhibition, "Picasso and Antiquity: Line and Clay." The focus here is on Picasso's ceramic pieces inspired by ancient Greek theater and mythology, which are displayed next to ancient artifacts with similar themes in order to underscore the connection between

Iconic 20th-century artist Frida Kahlo has one of the best-known faces on the planet, but the world at large has never heard the Mexican painter's voice until, possibly, now.

The mosaics in the ancient city of Xanthos in the southern province of Antalya's Kaş district, are now unprotected. The magnificent mosaics had a water-resistant geotextile barrier during the time of the former president of excavations. But as the barrier eroded, the mosaics are now exposed to the elements of nature.

Five years ago, British street artist Banksy adorned the side of a once uninspiring white brick building in Bristol with the familiar image of a girl gazing out solemnly.