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Buy/gift a digital subscription Login to the Digital EditionA new museum has stolen onto the Beyoğlu art scene, filled with work from an unsung century of Turkish art. A show on food in art at the İşbank Museum of Painting and Sculpture is a veritable remembrance of times past
O h to be an art sleuth. Art and Taste, at İşbank’s fine new museum on İstiklâl, abounds with untold tales and camaraderie spanning a century of Turkish art. Favourites include an intimate still life by Léopold Lévy (left), Edip Hakkı Köseoğlu’s convivial rakı table, Naim Uludoğan’s oozing figs, İsmet Birsel’s merry dinner party and Fikret Mualla’s frenzied waiters, dashing hither and thither. Curated by Gül İrepoğlu, niece of Nurhan Atasoy, titanesse of Turkish art history, the show exudes the spirit of the old friends meeting under the trees of Hikmet Onat’s Bosphorus café (below).
LINK The Istanbul İşbank Museum of Painting and Sculpture: Türkiye İşbankası Resim Heykel Müzesi (Turkish only)
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