Istanbul's New Museum: Borusan Contemporary
Posted: 9/30/11 01:33 PM ET
Istanbul has a vibrant modern art scene that includes trendy new galleries, the Contemporary Istanbul art fair, several cutting-edge art book publishers, a modern art museum and its own biennial, which opened Sept. 16 and is as ambitious as it gets, especially in a country that many deem nationalistic in its modern art preferences. Using Cuban artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres's life and work as a starting point, and calling itself "Untitled," after the way G-T named his pieces, the biennial presents an international perspective on the questions contemporary Turkish artists seem to be asking themselves about identity, violence, media and war.
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