Tile prices at auction over the last three years suggest collector interest is shifting from painting to the applied arts.

Nuri İyem painted the same woman's portrait hundreds of times. That was a method, not a repetition.

Eight sales in six months, four hundred lots. A sell-through of sixty-nine per cent.

A conversation about what repetition is, with a painter who has painted the same city for forty years.

A work's history is told as much by the gaps between the lines as by the lines.

The exhibitions opening this week in Tophane, Nişantaşı and Karaköy.