Now it is one of the biggest questions of the year. Who will take the Iron Throne? All will be revealed to avid fans of the Game of Thrones which is back for its eighth and final season. Five more episodes from now, the show will be culled but it is likely the Game of Thrones delirium will live on.
Disaster, catastrophe, tragedy, fate - these are the types of stories that have been told since ancient times in Greece. It's where the real theatrics of storytelling began - and laid the foundation for modern narratives that we still see today. But those ancient methods of storytelling are starting to be challenged by the country's bold Greek New Wave cinema. And carving out a place for himself is Syllas Tzoumerkas.
When it is said 'blockbuster' you might think of Extra-Terrestrials in bicycle baskets, or of big sharks and scantily clad women, or maybe of The Delorean. Steven Spielberg is the father of supernova-sized Hollywood movies. When he started his film career back in the 1970s, serious motion pictures catering to adults were what brought big bucks to the box-office. Even in this sombre climate, Spielberg managed to turn fantasy cinema into the main moviegoing spectacle. And things have never been the same since. To mark the recent anniversary of his first real breakthrough feature, The Sugarland Express, Showcase's own Alican Pamir, looks at how Spielberg rolled the dice and ultimately succeeded with this high-stakes gamble.
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Some call him the king of kitsch, while others hail him as the prince of pop art. Jeff Koons' pieces sell for millions of dollars, including a work titled 'Rabbit' which is expected to fetch up to fifty million dollars when it goes up for auction at Christie's New York in May. But popularity aside, Koons has also had his fair share of legal woes; from allegations of not delivering commissioned work, to charges of copyright infringement. Showcase's Aadel Haleem sat down with Koons in Qatar to discuss everything from making art accessible to making art in Doha.
Bogi Fabian is an artist, that transforms ordinary spaces into dazzling cosmic worlds teeming with spiral galaxies, glittering stars, and clouds of dust and gas. But only when you turn off the lights.
Peter Sanders is the world’s pre-eminent photographer of the Muslim world. For more than 45 years, he has captured over half a million images reflecting a rich traditional civilization filled with warmth, humanity and compassion. While this renowned photographer Peter Sanders was here in Istanbul, Showcase's Aadel Haleem got a chance to speak with him about his latest exhibition, and what it's been like for him to photograph everything from rock and roll icons to far-flung religious communities over the last fifty years.
Brainstorming how to preserve the country's heritage, as well as grow it. This is what the fourth edition of Heritage Istanbul fair is setting out to accomplish. As the who's who of the city, gather under one roof.