Fiachra Gibbons is a former Guardian arts correspondent and Turkey specialist
If anything shows the rise of Istanbul as a cultural power, it is its art biennial, which opened this month and runs until 13 November. Fiachra Gibbons selects some of the highlights
Twenty years ago it was nowhere; now Istanbul is up there with Venice and São Paulo as the art biennials that matter. Istanbul’s rapid rise has been fuelled by the extraordinary generosity of a handful of patrons in a country where traditionally artists could rely on nothing but censure. The latest of the city’s (...)
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