Despite apprehension about the post-pandemic economy, cultural organizations saw returns on their investment in new ventures. After a three-year renovation, Artspace, a contemporary art center in Sydney funded by the New South Wales government, reopened its Woolloomooloo headquarters, the Gunnery, on December 15, coinciding with the institution’s 40th anniversary. Artspace now occupies all three floors of the heritage-listed building, providing increased exhibition and multiplatform space, a learning studio, an accessible archive, and ten subsidized artist studios to combat the city’s raising rent prices.
Receiving a total architectural returned to its base in Karaköy after a five-year absence to a new 10,500-square-meter, glass-walled complex inspired by its waterfront location on the Bosphorus. The private museum reopened on May 4 with a chronological showcase of more than 110 artists based in Turkey from the museum’s collection.
