A rainy Istanbul’s guide to art beyond the city

Welcome back to AL-MONITOR Istanbul.

Istanbul has endured a week of torrential rain. The floods have cost lives, swamped homes and roads, and put much of the city’s cultural calendar on hold. It's weather for a good book or a film — and for planning where to go once the streets dry out. This week, we look beyond the Bosporus to Ankara, where a museum of antiquities has taken a botanical turn, and to Izmir, where the Centre Pompidou has arrived with a season of color and light. 

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