Thursday, June 18, 2009

Bringing Istanbul’s Street Art Indoors

"Bringing Istanbul’s Street Art Indoors
By Yigal Schleifer

ISTANBUL | In recent years, the walls of buildings in Istanbul’s hip and lively Beyoglu district increasingly have become canvasses for young graffiti and stencil artists. The art has been provocative (for a while, one stencil artist was regularly spray painting an image of Festus Okey, a Nigerian immigrant killed in police detention in 2007), enigmatic, fantastical."

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