AA Arts Preview

-Icelandic band Sigur Ros to play in Istanbul

Legendary Icelandic band Sigur Ros will be performing at Istanbul Zorlu as part of their world tour on Saturday, June 11.

The Reykjavik-based band is named after frontman Jonsi Birgisson’s younger sister Sigurros.

The three-member post-rock band, active since 1994, has released six albums of original material, as well as one remix album, "Recycle Bin".

The band’s songs have also been featured in critically acclaimed films and TV shows such as Children of Men, Slumdog Millionaire, and Game of Thrones.

On their website, the band told fans to expect “new unreleased songs, a new show, and maybe some other ‘new’ things” on their world tour.

http://sigur-ros.co.uk/

- British-American drama to hit theaters

A British-American biographical drama based on Scott Berg’s 1978 book Max Perkins: Editor of Genius will hit Turkish theaters on Friday.

The film is the directorial debut of London theater director Michael Grandage and stars Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, and Jude Law.

Selected for the Golden Bear competition at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, the movie tells the story of Max Perkins as a book editor who worked with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703957/

-Between Art and Physical Space

Turkey’s culture capital is set to host an exhibition by the Japanese tech-art collective teamLab through August 21 at Borusan Contemporary.

Curated by Charles Merewether, the exhibition is titled “Between Art and Physical Space,” and will take visitors on a “journey beyond that of the world of anime and manga, a world of moving images you can both touch and change,” said the organizers.

“Watch the tumbling waterfall or waves that seem to move across the room, flowers bloom, or make butterflies appear and disappear,” it added.

http://www.borusancontemporary.com