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Exhibition focuses on opposite side of Gallipoli story 4 mars 2015

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Northern District Times (Australia) March 4, 2015, p. 34

Monique Cowper

We have heard the Anzac story but a controversial new exhibition at Macquarie University hopes to tell a different tale. (suite…)

Istanbul Exhibition Examines Greek-Turkey Relationship 28 février 2012

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Voice of America (USA) February 28, 2012

Dorian Jones, Istanbul

The mass, forced population exchange between Turkey and Greece nearly 100 years ago is being examined in a groundbreaking exhibition in Istanbul. (suite…)

The Istanbul Art-Boom Bubble 12 février 2012

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The New York Times (USA) Sunday, February 12, 2012, p. MM 40

By Suzy Hansen

Earlier this winter, the giant 120-year-old Ottoman bank building in Istanbul reopened as a multimillion-dollar contemporary art space called SALT. This was surprising. Turks were never big on contemporary art, and for years rich people didn’t visit that part of town. (suite…)

Looking beyond Cool Anatolia 8 février 2012

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Financial Times (UK) Wednesday, February 8, 2012, p. 11

By Julius Purcell

« Mingling our own established traditions with that of the infidels will strip us of our purity and reduce us to being slaves. » So says a 16th-century character in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red , a novel that is temptingly quotable when it comes to Turkish art. (suite…)

Modern women artists in Turkey meet their trailblazing counterparts 15 décembre 2011

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The International Herald Tribune (USA) December 15, 2011

Susanne Fowler, Istanbul

“Dream and Reality,” a show at the Istanbul Modern art museum, pairs “nearly forgotten” painters from the Ottoman era with some of the most intriguing artists in Turkey today. (suite…)

Ancient connections bring a modern rapprochement 28 juillet 2011

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International Herald Tribune, Thursday, July 28, 2011

Susanne Fowler, Istanbul

Turkey and Greece find common ground in an exhibit on their past (suite…)