By Andrew Finkel and Monica Fritz | February 26, 2018
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Turkish cuisine is enjoying a new wave of popularity in Britain but for the last decade residents of London’s Hampstead have been nurturing deep affection for a modest but careful ‘lokanta’ at the entrance to the Heath. Zara takes its name after the small district in the eastern province of...
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It's not for the faint-hearted but Monica Fritz finds poetry in Distant Constellations at !F
By Monica Fritz | February 24, 2018
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Shevaun Mizrahi's film
Distant Constellations is a poetic rendition of life, hope and dreams portrayed in two different Istanbul realities, through conversations with the elderly in the Bomonti Sisters of the Poor home and construction workers building a skyscraper next door. Mizrahi herself is of mixed descent, Turkish and American,...
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Monica Fritz meets Salih Demirci, director of Cano
By Monica Fritz | February 24, 2018
Salih Demirci's first film
Cano is a story of a schoolteacher named Ibrahim and his search for a missing friend, Cano. Ibrahim is portrayed beautifully by the director himself who is also a schoolteacher. A portrait of a lost man and a man lost. The search for a friend became...
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The !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival delivers surprises
By Cornucopia UK | February 22, 2018
This week, I walked into a movie blind. The !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival is ongoing through this weekend, and I’ve been determined to catch as many film screenings as I can fit into my schedule. This time, I showed up at the cinema alone and in ignorance. I hadn’t...
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By Cornucopia | February 17, 2018
It is with utmost sadness that we must report the loss this week of Ergun Çağatay, one of Turkey's great photographers (portrait by Ali Bayram). Ergun Çağatay captured numerous iconic photographs of the Bosphorus and Anatolia, but his most celebrated legacy will be his magnum opus,
The Turkic Speaking Peoples,...
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Important NPG portrait needs conserving
By Cornucopia UK | February 17, 2018
The National Portrait Gallery in London is trying to raise £6,900 to conserve an important painting of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the eighteenth-century poet and author of
Travels in Turkey, which inspired many European writers and artists, such as Ingres, not least for her description of her experiences of a...
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From projections to GIFs, this exhibition elevates innovative art
By Cornucopia UK | February 14, 2018
On one of these grey Istanbul winter days, I took the metro way out to Maslak to chase a rumour about a particularly bright and exciting exhibition. Spiraling two floors down in Orjin Maslak and turning a sharp corner, I entered a large white room that flickered and flashed with...
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The Kadıköy Cinema
By Monica Fritz | February 11, 2018
Slightly down the street from The Süreyya Opera house, hidden away in a
pasaj cluttered with gaudy shops, is the wonderful Kadikoy Cinema, built in 1967 and in store for some unknown changes. This week you can still see Fatih Akın's latest film,
In the Fade, and enjoy the cinema,...
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Monica’s meanderings
By Monica Fritz | February 3, 2018
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The once rusting St Stephen of the Bulgars in Balat has opened its doors again after years of silence and then restoration. This extraordinary structure now gleams from tip to toe, with the Fener/Balat weekend crowds of local tourists pouring in. The church was made of cast iron in Vienna,...
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A memorable London must-see
By Cornucopia UK | February 3, 2018
The mid-19th century Alphabet of London includes this entry, and shows the importance of the British Museum's collection from the Lycian city of
Xanthos. Elgin's marbles don't get a mention. This comes from the Bishopsgate Institute in London. Xanthos features in Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring's article on the Lycean...
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A cornucopia at The London Antique Rug & Textile Art Fair
By Cornucopia UK | January 25, 2018
The Decorative Antiques and Textiles Winter Fair in London’s Battersea Park is in full swing, with 150 exhibitors putting a huge variety of items on display. In the upstairs mezzanine the gloriously colourful world of LARTA, the London Antique Rug & Textile Fair, spreads out its wares. Pictured here is...
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A Sunday afternoon at the splendid Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi Yalı
By Cornucopia UK | January 17, 2018
Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi Yalı perches like a queen’s ruby underneath the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, the object of envy for casual boaters who dream of residing in summer mansions. From the back, it hides behind the stone wall that rims the main seaside road past Anadolu Hisarı. With the clouds...
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Europa Nostra puts the Greek Orphanage on a short list
By Cornucopia UK | January 17, 2018
The Greek Orphanage on Büyükada, formerly Prinkipo, largest of the Princes Islands, is one of 12 heritage sites shortlisted for the ‘7 Most Endangered’ programme for 2018, just announced by Europa Nova, at the start of the new European Year of Cultural Heritage. The story of the Greek Orphanage, built...
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The tactile exhibitions taking over Karaköy
By Cornucopia UK | January 12, 2018
The new space housing four galleries (with one more across the way) in Karaköy allows the terrific experience of a different artistic thrill on every floor. I was struck by how many of these exhibitions don’t seem to translate to photographs; the textures and intricacies are best experienced up close....
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Monica's meanderings (cont.)
By Monica Fritz | December 10, 2017
Uskudar's flea market is one, or maybe even the last, of the bazaars in Istanbul where a bargain is still to be found. On a Saturday afternoon the empty shops and busier workshops have a sleepy atmosphere – a shopkeeper actually remembered me from when I bought my first furniture...
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A Day at One of Istanbul’s Hottest Venues
By Ezgi Üstündağ | December 4, 2017
When I walked into Salon IKSV on November 10, ceramic mug and notebook in hand, it was the first time I’d ever seen it empty. The brightly-lit room–a dark grey floor connecting the small stage on one end to the sound booth and bar stocked on the other, with stairs...
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The Haydarpaşa old books festival
By Monica Fritz | December 3, 2017
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Today, December 3, is the last day of the Haydarpasa Sahaf Festival, an alternative way to browse second-hand books on the first track of the semi-abandoned, mythical train station jutting out into the Bosphorus that once served travellers to far-off destinations across Asia from Baghdad to Tehran. You can still...
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Ai Weiwei's provocative porcelain works
By Cornucopia UK | November 23, 2017
The Biennial has wrapped up but there’s still plenty of art to see in the city. If you were too busy exploring Biennial events to see some of the other notable exhibits, now is your chance.
Ai Weiwei On Porcelain at Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Emirgan The Chinese artist and provocateur...
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10th Annual Nâzım Hikmet Poetry Competition Accepting Submissions through January 15, 2018
By Ezgi Üstündağ | November 13, 2017
Poets around the world are invited to submit their original work to the 10 th annual Nâzım Hikmet Poetry Competition. The competition, judged by award-winning academics, poets and translators, will remain open until January 15, 2018. Aside from a monetary award of $100, competition winners and honorable mentions will be invited to read...
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Monica’s meanderings
By Cornucopia | November 11, 2017
A beautiful Golden Horn morning view from a hidden-away student cafe called Mimar Sinan Cafe on a side street off of the Süleymaniye Mosque. The spectacle unfolds four storeys up a dark and kitsch stairwell. Photograph: Monica Fritz (part 3 of her series of Sunday postcards)
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