For instance, last year renowned contemporary artist Ahmet Gunestekin was slated to set records for his Religions series of paintings, valued at 7.5 million Turkish lira (Dh15.4 million).

An exhibition of the late Turkish artist that is due to open at Tate Modern on 13 June and the recent of sale of her seriously large abstract painting Towards a Sky (1953) for just under £1m ...

Few doubt that . Turkey’s contemporary art scene is one of the liveliest in the world.. Galvanised by the Istanbul Biennial, which kicked off in 1987, the city has witnessed an explosion of ...

How Fusun Onur has shaped modern art in Turkey Her large abstract sculptures anticipated the vogue for ... is a bare canvas onto which the artist has sewn what looks like a string-mop head that ...

ISTANBUL — A museum that opened in Turkey this month became the talk of the art scene — for the wrong reason. The Odunpazari Modern Museum in Eskisehir, a city 120 miles southeast of Istanbul ...

In post-World War II New York, abstract expressionism, sometimes called the New York School, emerged, led by male artists like Jackson Pollock, who made the cover of Time magazine in 1956. But "the… ...