BBCNEWS Inside July 5, 2024
because she kind of, like, drops off the map. she was a woman, and she was a muslim... it's an exciting time to be interested in museums and visual art, because a great shake—up of art history is underway, which is why i've come to istanbul, that mesmerising megalopolis that straddles two continents, europe and asia. and the interplay between western and turkish art is a fundamental part of the extraordinary collection of this place, istanbul modern. i'm in turkey's biggest city, istanbul. in many ways, the story of istanbul is the story of the bosphorus strait, the waterway that d...