Art History’s Grossest Turkeys: A Thanksgiving Collection of Off-Putting Poultry
As Americans mark the great annual turkey genocide that we call Thanksgiving, ARTINFO decided to parse the pages of art history to find the oddest, most unsettling, and least appetizing depictions of...
View ArticleAmid Turkish Protests, Istanbul’s Leading Art and Culture Festival Postponed
In light of the ongoing rioting and unrest, organizers of the Istanbul arts and culture festival Ist Festival, originally scheduled to take place June 6-9, announced Monday morning that the event 2013...
View ArticleShepard Fairey Expresses Solidarity With Turkish Protesters, Uploads Ataturk...
In response to the ongoing protests and demonstrations in Turkey, Los Angeles street artist and global branding guru Shepard Fairey has uploaded an image of Turkey’s first president, Mustafa Kemal...
View ArticleIstanbul Biennial Protests Foreshadowed Battle for Gezi Park
The world is watching Turkey’s wave of protests, currently in the news as police storm Taksim Square. The country-wide popular movement began over the development of a park, but has come to channel...
View ArticleTurkish Artist Can Altay Addresses Fight for Public Space in Lower East Side...
Turkish artist Can Altay’s “Inner Space Station” (pictured), a circular six-foot concrete bench, was installed at the entrance of Seward Park on New York’s Lower East Side in early May as part of an...
View ArticleGallery Collects Millions of Turkey Portraits for Thanksgiving Exhibition
This Thanksgiving the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell, Maine will be hosting a slightly different kind of turkey celebration, the kind that remembers its dead, the Associated Press reports. Artist Cheryl...
View ArticleArt History’s Yummiest Turkey: John Currin’s Mouth-Watering Thanksgiving Scene
At this time last year we gathered together some of art history’s least appetizing turkeys for Thanksgiving, but this time, after a month of mustaches, we are starving. To best illustrate our...
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