April 13 - August 7, 2022
Focusing on the relationship between mass media and art, the exhibition entitled And Now the Good News brought together a comprehensive selection of works from the Annette and Peter Nobel Collection. Curated by Christoph Doswald, the exhibition traced the history of modern art while addressing some of the most critical issues in science, culture, and politics over the last 150 years. The exhibition featured around 300 works by 164 artists who used various media—such as painting, photography, collage, drawing, installation, and video—to display some of the most important periods in modern and contemporary art.
Taking the newspaper as an intellectual starting point, And Now the Good News focused on the relationship between text and news, the ways in which the invention of photography shaped society, and the powerful effects totalitarian systems had on mass media. The exhibition highlighted turning points such as the peace movement following World War II, the relationship between media industries and consumer culture, and the critical media discourse that emerged in the arts in the wake of globalization. It also depicted the transformation of concepts such as gender, religion, and ethnicity in art and media, as well as the development of social media society.
Image Credits
Dennis Hopper, Harlem (Daily News), 1962
Silver gelatine print on paper, 12/15
Allen Ruppersberg, Notes For a Future Mural (Agnes Martin), 2020
Collage (paper, paint) on paper
58,4 x 76,2 cm
Trevor Guthrie, Fox News (The War on Cheerleading), 2007
Charcoal on paper
110 x 100 cm
Superflex, I Copy Therefore I Am, 2011
Offset print on paper (poster) on aluminium
60 x 65 cm
Saša Tkačenko, It's Not Right But It's Okay, 2021
Inkjet print on paper, glass, aluminium, 1/5
81 x 38 x 4 cm
Charlie White, Teen Idol #1 from: The Girl Studies), 2008
C-print on paper, 1/3
45,5 x 36,5 cm
Eric Bachmann, Bahnhofplatz, Zürich, 1966
Lambda-print on paper, 1/6 (print 2015)
34 x 52 cm
3D Virtual Tour
Exhibition Catalogue
In the publication accompanying the exhibition, collectors Annette and Peter Nobel’s text "Notes on the Exhibition" includes a short text written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt in a satirical language. In his curatorial text, Christoph Doswald discusses the sections of the exhibition in detail.
Focusing on the relationship between mass media and art, And Now The Good News: Works from the Nobel Collection exhibition’s events continue with Esra Özdoğan and Sinan Eren Erk’s talk titled “Reality or Truth? Questioning Representation in Photography.”
Pera Learning
Pera Museum Learning Programs is organizing fun and educational online workshops and tours for different age groups between May 9 and August 7, 2022, under its “Coincidental Expressions” program related to the exhibition, And Now the Good News: Works from the Nobel Collection.
We are celebrating “April 23 National Sovereignty and Children’s Day” at our online creative drama workshops on April 24, 2022, through the collaboration of the Pera Museum Learning Programs and the Contemporary Drama Association. We are exploring the Pera Museum online and focusing on children’s improvisation talents through the medium of creative drama.
1638, the year Louis XIV was born –his second name, Dieudonné, alluding to his God-given status– saw the diffusion of a cult of maternity encouraged by the very devout Anne of Austria, in thanks for the miracle by which she had given birth to an heir to the French throne. Simon François de Tours (1606-1671) painted the Queen in the guise of the Virgin Mary, and the young Louis XIV as the infant Jesus, in the allegorical portrait now in the Bishop’s Palace at Sens.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)