Turkish artist Bedri Baykam reveals eight seconds that changed the world

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Turkish artist Bedri Baykam’s new exhibition puts the assassination of JFK front and center, 50 years after the US president was killed in Dallas

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You Can’t Say Dallas Doesn’t Love You Mr. President. Mixed media on canvas

People around the world can still remember what they were doing on Nov. 22, 1963, when the last sitting president of the United States was assassinated in Dallas. Fifty years have passed since John F. Kennedy was killed, but the mystery surrounding his murder has yet to dissipate despite the passage of five decades.

Appropriately, Turkish artist Bedri Baykam’s latest exhibition, “8 Seconds that Changed the World,” delves into the circumstances surrounding JFK’s death. Even more fittingly, the show at Piramid Sanat opened on Nov. 22.

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