Saturday, January 08, 2005

Turkish Delight

Modern art in Turkey has lurked in private galleries or staged every two years at the International Istanbul Biennial.
Now Istanbul city has its first modern art museum - Istanbul Modern - a huge former customs warehouse on the gray-blue waters of the Sea of Marmara. The opening exhibition, 'Observation-Interpretation-Multiplicity,' is an eclectic mix of paintings by 100 Turkish and Turkish expatriate artists from 1900 on.
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