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8/26/05

New York Times: In Istanbul, Contemporary Art Blooms Amid a Thousand Minarets

New York Times

In Istanbul, Contemporary Art Blooms Amid a Thousand Minarets

NURAN TERZIOGLU, a Turkish curator and gallery owner, is holding court in Cezayir, a restaurant in Beyoglu, Istanbul's pre-eminent arts neighborhood. A large group of writers and journalists is meeting in an adjoining room, while a few artists are lounging around in the cafe, a bright beige room with high ceiling fans and decorated only with prints of the great 15th-century miniaturist Siyah Kalem, or Black Pencil, one of the fathers of Ottoman, hence Turkish, art.

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