A visual exploration of the lesser known
By Suraya Yusof | May 29, 2018
A stone's throw away from the bustle of Istiklal Caddesi, the Pera Museum nestles among the ivory façades of Tepebaşı. With its dual focus on historical and contemporary art, the museum has embarked on a series of international collaborations since its inauguration 13 years ago. Memorable shows included
Andy Warhol:...
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Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances and Tchaikovsky’s cruel challenge: Cornucopia’s Istanbul Festival reviews continue at Aya İrini
By John Shakespeare Dyson | May 27, 2018
October 4, 8.30–16.00: Bosphorus tour, with Sedat Bornovalı (₺250) October 10, 8.30–16.00: Shores of the Golden Horn, with Mois Gabay (₺290) October 20 8.30–16.00: Nature and history tour: The Belgrade Forest reservoirs and the Atatürk Arboretum, with Mehmet Esendal October 18, 11.00–16.00, and October 31, 10.30–16.00 Three...
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Yekwon Sunwoo and the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra: a heart-warming first night of the Istanbul Festival
By John Shakespeare Dyson | May 24, 2018
The 46th İstanbul Music Festival, organised by the İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), kicked off with a concert at the Lütfi Kırdar Concert Hall last night (Wednesday, May 23). Once again I was prompted to reflect on how far we have come since I first attended a classical...
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A new book on the extraordinary story of the great Italian architects of late-Ottoman Istanbul
By Monica Fritz | May 13, 2018
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I was first introduced to Turkey on a road trip with Paolo Girardelli back in 1993. Starting from Rome we drove to Istanbul and took the famous
Truva ferry to Trabzon in quest of abandoned Georgian churches. Together with other excited friends we climbed the hills and trekked through tea...
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Didem Pekün's haunting film elegy
By Julie Witford | May 7, 2018
Two art film directors from Turkey were represented at this year’s Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival in the Scottish Borders: Didem Pekün, with
Araf (UK premiere), and Nazlı Dinçel, with
Shape of a Surface.
Araf follows the diary of a ghostly character, Nayia, who returns to Bosnia for the 22nd...
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By John Scott | May 6, 2018
It is with tremendous sadness that we share the news with our readers that Brian McKee, the fine art photographer
completely extraordinary who has worked his magic in the pages for Cornucopia, died on April 19, after collapsing outside his apartment in Üsküdar. Our heartfelt sympathy goes to Ai Kijima,...
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By Monica Fritz | May 6, 2018
Are kilims artisan throw rugs or woven art? No one is better placed to answer this than Belkis Balpınar. Former director of the Vakiflar Carpet and Kilim Museum in Istanbul, she has continued for decades to champion the Turkish flatweave and to raise it, literally, to another dimension. Belkıs Balpınar's...
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Mika Tajima's digital emotional mesmerizes Monica Fritz
By Monica Fritz | April 23, 2018
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Well, who would guess that a visit to the office would be a fun way to spend Children's Day! At weekends, Borusan's offices, housed in the Yusuf Ziya Pasha's Pavillion, morphs into the Bosusan Contemporry Art Gallery, with not a paper clip in sight. The newest exhibitor is the New...
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A new exhibition at Orleans House Gallery
By Cornucopia UK | April 19, 2018
This small painting by Frederic Leighton of Sir Richard Burton’s house in Damascus is one of the delights of a new display about the diplomat and traveller at Orleans House Gallery in west London. The aristocratic Palladian villa now holds the Richmond upon Thames Borough Art Collection, and Burton memorabilia...
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Javier Perianes brings bravura, moodiness and passion to Chopin, Debussy and de Falla at SMM’s concert hall, the Seed
By John Shakespeare Dyson | April 11, 2018
The Spanish pianist Javier Perianes arrived in Istanbul on Tuesday April 10 hotfoot from a lunchtime recital at the Wigmore Hall in London the previous day and is to be heartily congratulated for demonstrating that the lyricism for which he has been justly praised cannot be compromised by being shaken...
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London Book Fair 2018 round-up
By Cornucopia UK | April 11, 2018
This photograph of a ferry carrying visitors to Furness Abbey in Cumbria comes from
British–Ottoman Relations through the Yıldız Palace Photography Collection, launched at Olympia on the first day of the London Book Fair yesterday. The photographs were collected by Sultan Abdulhamid II (1876–1909) and are published by the Sultan...
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A Gala Night celebrates the reopening of the famous Middle East Galleries.
By Cornucopia UK | April 11, 2018
The
Penn Museum in Philadelphia has a Gala Night, billed as An Evening on the Fertile Crescent, on Saturday, April 14 to celebrate the opening of its refurbished Middle East Galleries. “For one night only," runs the invitation, “experience the celebrated architecture, gardens, and fountains of the Penn Museum, dressed...
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Shipping nightmare for an historic yalı
By John Scott | April 8, 2018
Of all the houses on the Bosphorus that had to be struck by the Vitaspirit, a 74,000-ton, 225 metre cargo ship yesterday afternoon, did it have to be the Hekimbaşı Yalı? And not only that but the most historic part of the house. Every creaking floorboard, every inch of its...
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By Monica Fritz | March 30, 2018
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Mike Berg arrived in Istanbul shortly after the 1999 earthquake. However, our conversation started with a passionate description of his ranch and the peacefulness he felt in total silence.
Mike Berg, gouache, 2018 A father of four and newly a grandfather, Berg delights in moving between his three worlds, a...
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Hale Tanger’s ‘Under’ and other highlights on Alserkal Avenue
By Tim Cornwell | March 24, 2018
The first impression of
Under, the Dubai art installation created by the Turkish artist Hale Tenger, and her long-time collaborator musician Serdar Ateşer, is that someone has put a tree in a box. The box in question lies in Alserkal Avenue, a striking but treeless zone of leading Middle Eastern...
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By Cornucopia UK | March 16, 2018
Katie Nadworny & Alison Luntz, 'Dreamspace 1', 2016, Pigment Fine Art Print (35mm), 50x70 cm As
Cornucopia’s Online Arts Editor, I spend much of my time visiting and reading and writing about exhibitions all over Istanbul. But I am an artist as well– a photographer working in analogue, with old...
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By Cornucopia | March 11, 2018
Congratulations to Patricia Daunt.
The Palace Lady’s Summerhouse and other inside stories from a vanishing Turkey has gathered two more glowing reviews from writers impressed by the author’s rare combination of passion and precision. Patricia Daunt has spent ‘most of a lifetime exploring Turkey – as walker, rider, knower of...
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By John Scott | March 11, 2018
Very happy to see glowing reviews of Patricia Daunt's Palace Lady's Summerhouse this week, in
The Times Literary Supplement and April edition of The World of Interiors. Yasmine Sealle, writing in the TLS (Red Brown to the Horizon)
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Monica Fritz meets a pioneer for whom ‘creativity is power’
By Monica Fritz | March 8, 2018
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A star in the international contemporary art world, İnci Eviner has done much to transform Turkish contemporary art. She spoke to me of her great hope for the future as we drank tea in her high-ceilinged loft studio, hidden in the back streets of Hasköy on the Golden Horn. If...
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Üsküdar’s ancient planes
By Monica Fritz | March 4, 2018
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Deep in Üsküdar, up on a hill overlooking the sea next to the famous barracks where Florence Nightingale nursed the sick and the dying of another pointless war, lies the Baroque Selimiye Mosque and its garden, now stark and into the pre-spring pruning season. John Freely describes the garden as...
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