“”The first edition of ‘Istanbul 2010’ hits newsstands (#istanbul2010)

it can be dowloaded here. STARTING POINT: The first edition of ‘Istanbul 2010’ hits newsstands – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic ReviewIstanbul tops unemployment list among Turkish cities [ WORLD BULLETIN- TURKEY NEWS, WORLD NEWS ] Your Travels: Mesmerizing Old Istanbul Sultanahmet district to be re-designed. Istanbul is buzzing: Buy today and reap the rewards … Read more

“Istanbul?s New Cultural Centers” (#istanbul2010)

Heads Up – Istanbul?s New Cultural Centers

“A Revival in Istanbul
Carolyn Drake for The New York Times

Deniz Palas, new home of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, with its neon chandelier.

By YIGAL SCHLEIFER

UNTIL only recently, the 90-year-old Deniz Palas (Sea Palace in Turkish) in Istanbul?s Sishane neighborhood was a perfect symbol of the city?s faded glory. Originally a grand apartment building that catered to the area?s once large Greek-speaking community, the edifice ? and the surrounding neighborhood ? slowly slid into a state of decay over the decades, as political and economic turbulence drove the area?s original residents away. Now, though, the building symbolizes nothing less than the city?s cultural resurgence.”


La foule sur les quais de Constantinople | Crowd on the quays of Constantinople
found in Sur les quais de Constantinoplefrom Mavi Boncuk by M.A.M

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Art Daily on Istanbul (#istanbul2010)

A visitor looks at a 70 square meters wall painting by Turkish artist Ekrem Yalcindag at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, as part of the museum’s new exhibition “From Traditional to Contemporary”, February 16, 2010. REUTERS/Murad Sezer.

Art Daily on Istanbul

“Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art Explored at Istanbul Modern”

ISTANBUL.- İstanbul Modern?s new Exhibition, ?From Traditional to Contemporary: Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art?, will open in February 2010. Focusing on the relationship between art and the traditional, the Exhibition seeks to show how artists employ history in their construction of modernism. Curated by İstanbul Modern?s chief Curator Levent Çalıkoğlu, ?From Traditional to Contemporary: Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art? will be a exhibition in which modern and contemporary artists will take part. These are the artists who reinterpret information, which is traditional, in the context of a new language of expression.”

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Istanbul under snow (#istanbul2010)

İstanbul beyaza büründü 23.01.2010

More photos can be found here.

Istanbul is under snow and life stopped in our European capital of culture. I decided to give a break to my life, and now camping in my parents’ place. Watching tens of episodes of How I Met Your Mother, reading, eating and napping. But this of course entails family thingies like watching food (in the morning) and marriage programs (afternoon) with mum….I hear that snow will be affective until Monday…

Another Istanbul 2010 video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C8xWl8dq1k

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Istanbul 2010 videos (#istanbul2010)

Official ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLMJNIfh0gU

Opening ceremony- Tarkan’s concert

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