Istanbul's Art Market Soars to New Heights — But Will It Be Undone by Unrest?
Everywhere I went in Istanbul last May, during the aptly named “Istancool” culture festival, it seemed that Tate Modern’s curator of international art, Jessica Morgan, had just been there, making the rounds and sniffing about the galleries, as their proprietors were eager to tell me. The situation was once unthinkable, according to the veteran dealer Haldun Dostoglu, a cofounder of one of the city’s oldest modern-and-contemporary galleries, Galeri Nev: “Fifteen years ago, it was almost impossible for me to imagine selling an artwork to the British.”
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