I’m planning on getting some serious vicarious thrills out of my new blog!
If you read my profile you know that I publish audio art guides. Because of that, I’m plugged into a lot of art-related news sources. I’ve learned to scan these super-quickly — otherwise I get sucked into daydreaming about traveling hither and yon to experience all the great art the world has to offer!
This blog will give me an excuse to pause in my scanning when something grabs my interest and pass it along to traveling art-lovers who might be in the enviable position to actually hie themselves hither! I’ll also pass on personal art experiences and other newsy items that I think other traveling art-afficionados might be interested in too.
Istanbul
Istanbul’s Sakip Sabanci Museum will host a huge modern art exhibition of 270 works by the late Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali, from September 19 until January 19. 
With 33 oil paintings, 113 sketches and 123 graphics, it will be the largest ever mounted by the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation outside the artist’s Catalan hometown of Figueres.
In 2005 and 2006 a major exhibition of works by another Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso, broke all records for a Turkish gallery, attracting a quarter of a million art lovers, so this show opens with high expectations for another blockbuster.
While you’re there be sure to check out the Museum’s permanent collection, which includes early Turkish painting as well as the works of foreign artists who worked in Istanbul during the later years of the Ottoman Empire; 500 years of the art of Ottoman calligraphy; and exhibited in the garden of the Museum, archaeological stone pieces of the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman eras.
Tags: Istanbul, Salvador Dali
