In the last decade, the once-small Istanbul art world has filled out with non-profits and independent artists' initiatives. Commercial galleries have been slower to appear, but a series of exhibitions…
Hou Hanru's 2007 Istanbul Biennial was a notoriously unwieldy affair. "Not Only Possible But Also Necessary: Optimism in a Time of Global War" assembled an unprecedented number of artists in multiple …
Comprising over a dozen international volunteer writers, Boltart.net is powered by a new generation of Turkish twenty-somethings, educated abroad but who identify with Turkey. A page devoted to goings…
Organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), the 9th and 10th Istanbul Biennials, 2005's "Istanbul" and 2007's gigantic "Not only possible but also necessary: optimism in the age…