Nazli Kok Akbas

BRANCUSI, CHRISTIE’S & NICOLE KIDMAN; HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR AND A $108 MILLION FOR DANAIDE!

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorArt Market, General May 23, 2026May 25, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article HOW CHRISTIE’S STAGED BRANCUSI LIKE A HOLLYWOOD FILM When Constantin Brancusi’s Danaide crossed the $107 million at Christie’s in May 2026, the sale became more than a market evet. It revelated how the contemporary auction house now operates through cinematic storytelling, celebrity aura, and mythology. Nicole Kidman’s presence in …

MATISSE,1941-1954,GRAND PALAIS, PARIS,“SECOND LIFE”

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions April 26, 2026May 23, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: The exhibition Matisse.1941-1954 at Grand Palais, Paris sheds light on the final years of Henri Matisse’s career. Claudine Grammont, exhibition’s curator, has realized a colossal work in bringing together more than 300 works between 1941 and 1954; paintings, drawings, cut-out gouaches, illustrated books, textiles, and stained glass, from Centre Pompidou collection and major …

NAN GOLDIN,THIS WILL NOT END WELL,Grand Palais, Paris

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions April 15, 2026April 15, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: A Poetics of Intimacy, Rupture and Survival Few artists have altered the visual language of intimacy as profound as Nan Goldin. In her latest exhibition, This Will Not End Well, Goldin does more than revisit the emotional territory that made her seminal work, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a landmark: she deepens it, …

OTOBONG NKANGA, I DREAMT OF YOU IN COLORS, MCBA LAUSANNE

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMCBA, Must See Exhibitions, The Conversation April 11, 2026April 13, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: The must-see exhibition I Dreamt of You in Colors by Otobong Nkanga opened to the public last week at MCBA Lausanne. Rather than a conventional retrospective, the exhibition is presented as a living ecosystem of forms, histories, and materials. Conceived in close collaboration with the artist Otobong Nkanga, the …

NILBAR GURES, VENICE BEINNALE 2026, TURKIYE PAVILION, GOZLERINIZDEN OPERIM (A KISS ON THE EYES)

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions, The Conversation March 30, 2026April 1, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: Nazlı Kok Akbas: Hello Nilbar Gures, I’d love to interview you, Nazli Kok Art Reports, Geneva, Switzerland Best regards NILBAR GURES: Hello, Where will it be published? Best regards NKA: Hello I was really pleased that you replied to my message. Thank you so much indeed…. It …

MAMCO x GPS x BAINS DES PAQUIS DAIL-A-POEM SWITZERLAND

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions March 20, 2026March 20, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article REACTIVATING JOHN GIORNO: THE POLITICS OF LISTENING At the moment when contemporary art is increasingly mediated by screens, speed, and spectacle, the revival of Dial-a-Poem at MAMCO Geneva, feels both disarmingly simple and conceptually urgent. Originally conceived in 1968 by John Giorno, the project proposed a radical gesture: to make …

MORE ART, LESS MONEY! ART BASEL & UBS GLOBAL ART MARKET REPORT 2026

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorArt Market, The Art Fairs March 12, 2026March 18, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: A STRANGE BALANCE OF THE 2025 ART MARKET; MORE ART LESS MONEY! The latest Art Basel& UBS Global Art Market Report 2026, written by economist Clare McAndrew, describes a year in which art market did something unusual; it shrank in value but expanded in activity. This paradox was the …

MARC BAUER, Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing, KUNSTMUSEUM Basel

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions, The Conversation March 10, 2026April 13, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: At Kunstmuseum Basel, Swiss Artist Marc Bauer presents Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing, a powerful exhibition that connects queer history with the emotional urgency of the present. Through monumental charcoal wall drawings, layered narratives, and raw expressive imagery, Bauer explores how identities are shaped by fear, resistance, and resilience. The works unfold …

MUSEUM UNDER FIRE,MEMORY AND POWER IN A FRACTURED MIDDLE EAST

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorGeneral March 3, 2026March 3, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article In moments of geopolitical escalation, attention gravities -understandibly- to borders, oil routes, airspace closures, and diplomatic rhetoric. Yet beneath the visible theatre of war lies another quieter front: MUSEUMS. There are several hundred museums and heritage sites in the Gulf region and in the conflict zone around Iran. Saudi Arabia reports …

CEZANNE,THE BEYELER FOUNDATION,THE ARCHITECTURE OF PERCEPTION

by NAZLI KOK AKBAS, Art EditorMust See Exhibitions, The Foundation Beyeler March 2, 2026March 3, 2026No Comments

🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: There are exhibitions that celebrate a master, and there are exhibitions that quietly reorganize our perception and understanding of art history. The current exhibition at The Beyeler, Foundation, Basel, devoted to Paul Cezanne belongs to second category. In the luminous architecture of Riehen, Cezanne does not appear …