This article focuses on the ways in which the European aesthetic realm becomes a
battleground of intercultural and intercivilizational conflicts as well as a domain of …

Abstract Claiming Modernity through Aesthetics: A Comparative Look at Germany and
Turkey examines how modern nationhood is established and consolidated through the arts …

This chapter represents an ongoing interest in the ways in which musicians are involved in
the production of cultural intimacy in the public sphere of the eastern Mediterranean's new …

While many AKP supporters have achieved significant economic and political upward
mobility and the party consolidated its power to the extent of operating a de facto party-state …

In this text I will deal with a period of twenty years (1987–2007) in the development of the
contemporary art system and practice in Istanbul. I will focus on Istanbul and not on Turkey …

One prominent intellectual of the early Turkish Republic, İsmail Hakkı Baltacıoğlu, argued
that the new Republic should be “a Republic of fine arts.” Indeed, the early Republican …

At this point in time, the Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum in the very heart of
Germany's capital, Berlin, finds itself in an exceptional situation, facing a whole range of …

Twelve cartoons, published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September 2005,
nine cartoons published in the Tehran newspaper Iran in May 2006, and 282 cartoons …

Abstract Starting from the 2009 Istanbul Biennial, with its Brechtian curatorial theme, this
essay considers the Left's varying responses to art's so-called 'political turn'. Discussion …

Based on long-term ethnographic research in the art worlds of Istanbul and Berlin, The
National Frame rethinks the politics of art by focusing on the role of art in state governance. It …