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ISTANBUL'74 ISTANBUL'74 is a multi-disciplinary Arts and Culture platform.

18/09/2026

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Exploring the many expressions of human connection, photographer and filmmaker Alex Prager uses iPhone 18 Pro to capture...
18/09/2026

Exploring the many expressions of human connection, photographer and filmmaker Alex Prager uses iPhone 18 Pro to capture fleeting moments of touch, care, ritual, solitude and shared experience.

Commissioned by Apple as part of its global photography exhibition What Holds Us, Prager joins photographers Jack Davison and Jimmy Chin, each bringing a distinct perspective to the theme of human connection. Curated by Kathy Ryan, former longtime director of photography at The New York Times Magazine, the exhibition explores the people, places and ideas that connect and ground us in an increasingly fragmented world.

Prager’s cinematic contribution captures a crowd winding down after a celebration, shifting between bustling scenes and intimate portraits. Through vivid colours, intricate details and a striking vertical triptych, her work invites viewers into a fleeting moment suspended between movement and stillness.

On view in New York City, September 18–20, before traveling to London and Shanghai.

by Alex Prager Commissioned by apple

“Our life is our art. Our art is our life.”— Yayoi KusamaStep into a world where art becomes an immersive experience.Ren...
18/09/2026

“Our life is our art. Our art is our life.”
— Yayoi Kusama

Step into a world where art becomes an immersive experience.

Renowned for her hypnotic polka dots, mirrored spaces and infinite patterns, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama transforms Amsterdam into a vivid dialogue of colour, light and perception. Her immersive installations blur the boundaries between reality and imagination, inviting visitors to become part of an ever-expanding visual universe.

Through repetition, reflection and infinity, Kusama challenges our perception of space and self, turning the act of looking into an experience of its own.

Bringing together the works of Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince, Helter Skelter explores the complex relationship between ...
18/09/2026

Bringing together the works of Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince, Helter Skelter explores the complex relationship between contemporary art, popular culture and image-making.

At Fondazione Prada in Venice, the exhibition examines how images shape our perceptions of identity, culture and society, inviting us to reconsider the ways we see and interpret the world around us.

Fondazione Prada

A city remembered, reimagined and brought to life through paint.French artist Michel Delacroix invites us into a nostalg...
17/09/2026

A city remembered, reimagined and brought to life through paint.

French artist Michel Delacroix invites us into a nostalgic Paris of cobblestone streets, glowing windows, snow-covered rooftops and intimate everyday moments. Drawing from memories of the city he knew during his childhood, Delacroix creates a poetic world where time seems to stand still. His distinctive naïve style transforms familiar Parisian scenes into dreamlike compositions, capturing not only the architecture of a city, but its atmosphere, rhythm and soul.

As Delacroix once reflected:

“I just close my eyes for a second and I see all the past looking back.”

Through his paintings, the past becomes a place we can return to — one street, one memory, one brushstroke at a time.

17/09/2026

Opening Next Week! ISTANBUL’74 is pleased to announce Robert Montgomery’s new solo exhibition, opening on 23 September 2026 at ISTANBUL’74 Arnavutköy in the presence of the artist, marking the latest chapter in a collaboration spanning more than a decade.

One of the leading voices in contemporary art, Robert Montgomery is internationally recognised for his poetic language across billboards, lightworks, paintings, woodcuts and watercolours. His work has been presented at the Lyon Biennale, Kochi-Muziris Biennale and Yinchuan Biennale, as well as at institutions including the Louvre in Paris, Albright-Knox Art Gallery in New York, Aspen Art Museum, Oklahoma Contemporary, PODO Museum and CerModern.

The exhibition presents three new paintings from Montgomery’s Poets in the Cities series. Following the recent presentation of a work from the series at Charleston, the historic home of the Bloomsbury Group in England, Istanbul marks the first presentation of this new series outside the UK.

Alongside the paintings, new lightworks reflect both the continuing evolution of Montgomery’s practice and his longstanding relationship with Istanbul.

ROBERT MONTGOMERY
Solo Exhibition
23 September 2026 | 18.00
ISTANBUL’74
Arnavutköy
Beyazgül Sk. No.29, Beşiktaş / Istanbul

Nordic Knots opens its new New York flagship at 6 Greene Street, introducing the Nordic Knots Tennis Club as part of a n...
16/09/2026

Nordic Knots opens its new New York flagship at 6 Greene Street, introducing the Nordic Knots Tennis Club as part of a new retail experience.

For its latest space, the Swedish rug brand brings its signature Scandinavian aesthetic into dialogue with New York’s sporting culture, creating a playful environment where interiors, design and tennis-inspired details come together.

The opening also marks the launch of The Grand Open, now on view at the NYC flagship.

Nordic Knots

Photographed by gabriel spence

As part of Paris Design Week, Contrepoint brings contemporary design into dialogue with the sculptural language of Antoi...
16/09/2026

As part of Paris Design Week, Contrepoint brings contemporary design into dialogue with the sculptural language of Antoine Bourdelle at the Musée Bourdelle in Paris.

Presented from 8 to 27 September 2026, the installation explores the connections between sculpture and design through wood, glass, textiles, and clay. Guerrée draws on Bourdelle’s lines, curves, and forms, translating them into a new vocabulary of furniture, screens, and objects.

Set within Bourdelle’s historic museum and studio, the installation creates a conversation between the legacy of a modernist sculptor and contemporary craftsmanship — where materials, forms, and gestures meet across generations.

Emmy Awards 2026 Winners Are HereThe 78th Emmy Awards celebrated the most outstanding television of the 2025–2026 season...
15/09/2026

Emmy Awards 2026 Winners Are Here

The 78th Emmy Awards celebrated the most outstanding television of the 2025–2026 season. Widow’s Bay emerged as the night’s biggest winner, taking home Outstanding Comedy Series alongside five other awards, while The Pitt won Outstanding Drama Series and DTF St. Louis took home Outstanding Limited Series.

Performances also took center stage, with Matthew Rhys making Emmy history with two lead acting wins for Widow’s Bay and The Beast in Me. Jean Smart, Noah Wyle, Rhea Seehorn and Sally Field also took home major acting awards, while Stephen Root and Kate O’Flynn won supporting acting awards for Widow’s Bay.

Here are some of the defining winners of the 2026 Emmys.



“Painting is the pattern of one’s own nervous system being projected on canvas.”— Francis BaconFrancis Bacon remains one...
15/09/2026

“Painting is the pattern of one’s own nervous system being projected on canvas.”
— Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon remains one of the most powerful painters of the human figure, transforming portraits and bodies into psychologically charged images of vulnerability, tension and desire.

Throughout his career, Bacon repeatedly returned to the human body, using distortion not to abandon representation, but to reveal something beneath it. Faces become fragmented, bodies appear twisted or compressed, and figures are often isolated within stark, geometric spaces. His paintings capture moments of physical and emotional tension, turning the body into a site where identity, violence, desire and mortality intersect.

Bacon’s portraits were rarely intended as straightforward likenesses. Instead, he manipulated the features of his subjects to explore their psychological presence. His distorted figures, from portraits of friends and lovers to his numerous self-portraits, became a way of questioning how a person can be represented beyond appearance.

His fascination with earlier masters also played an important role in this process. Among his most recognisable works are his variations on Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X, in which the composed image of authority is transformed into a screaming, almost spectral figure.

Across his practice, Bacon pushed figurative painting towards something visceral and deeply psychological, creating images that continue to confront the viewer with the fragility and complexity of the human condition.

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