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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Reviving Brecht on the Bosporus

"Reviving Brecht on the Bosporus

By SUSANNE FOWLER
Published: October 14, 2009

ISTANBUL — Is art a mirror that reflects reality, or a hammer used to shape it?

Taking a cue from the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, the Croatian collective WHW is hammering home some powerful messages about life in the capitalist lane with its curatorship of the 11th International Istanbul Biennial."

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