"'Picasso in Istanbul' opens to Turks
BENJAMIN HARVEY
Associated Press
ISTANBUL, Turkey - A major Picasso exhibition opened to the public Thursday in an Istanbul museum best known for its collection of highly stylized Islamic calligraphy.
The patroness of the Sakip Sabanci Museum, the head of a multibillion-dollar Turkish conglomerate, said she hopes the show will accelerate Turkey's cultural shift from the ancient, Islamic and Oriental to the cutting edge, contemporary and European."
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