The Gallipoli Art Prize 2013: Reminding us of war’s dark history
By Victoria Khroundina | April 27, 2013
The winner of Australia's Gallipoli Art Prize was announced last week on Anzac Remembrance Day (April 25). Peter Wegner, a Melbourne artist, was awarded the honour for his arresting image Dog in a Gas Mask. The $20,000 prize and an annual exhibition were established in 2006 to honour those who had...
Contemporary Art, History
The Arab Spring continues: the destruction of the minaret of the Umayyad Mosque, Aleppo
By John Scott | April 25, 2013
An email received from H-ISLAMART Dear Colleagues, I am heartbroken to inform you that the 11th-century minaret of the Umayyad mosque in Aleppo was destroyed yesterday. It was one of the great treasures of Islamic architecture, a restrained and elegant example of the exquisite stone-carving of medieval Syrian stonemasons. It...
Iznik highlight at the British Museum
By Roger Williams | March 20, 2013
Following the success of The World in 100 Objects, the British Museum is now highlighting London: A World City in 20 objects. One of the top 20 objects, chosen by Venetia Porter, the museum's curator responsible for Islamic art, is this Iznik pottery basin, on display in Room 34. Iznik...
Slightly Foxed, Dreaming of the Bosphorus
By Michael Hornsby | February 19, 2013
The Spring 2013 issue of the quarterly literary journal Slightly Foxed features an article in which Cornucopia contributor Ateş Orga remembers how his father İrfan's memoir A Portrait of a Turkish Family came to be written. 'An autobiography of tears and goodbyes, dedicated to my mother, it reached fruition on a Hermes...
Cultural exertions: the Cultural Routes Society takes another step forward
By Roger Williams | February 12, 2013
A one-click website has been set up for the Culture Routes Society to bring together the 16 waymarked long-distance walks in Turkey. Trailmakers, tour operators, accommodation providers and other necessary information are available for an adventure through some of the country’s most beautiful and historic countryside. Each trail is supported...
Books, News, Travel
Sold out? Controversy over an upcoming auction of Turkish modern art
By Michael Hornsby | February 4, 2013
Lot 23. Yüksel Arslan, Updating 'KAPITAL', Signed And Dated 1978, Mixed Media On Paper, 50x71 Cm. 42,500 - 51,000 Euro 70 pieces of Turkish modern and contemporary art from the collection of Bilgi University are to be sold at auction on February 17. It is likely that many of the works will go...
Contemporary Art, Museums
A letter from the road
By Michael Hornsby | January 30, 2013
Cornucopia was delighted to recieve a letter from subscriber Janet Surman about her recent trip to visit the painted village mosques of Denizli, which feature in the beautiful photographs by Ali Konalı and Tarkan Kutlu on the cover of issue 48. Sadly some of the mosques seem to be in...
History, Islamic Art, Travel
Mellified living: exploring Kars through honey
By Claire Bangser | December 12, 2012
In a guest post on the Cornucopia blog, Claire Bangser from the Balyolu team explores the sweeter side of Kars, a border town in far-eastern Turkey, famously portrayed as cold and bleak in Orhan Pamuk's novel 'Snow'. In a village in northeastern Turkey, a bee-keeper died this spring at...
Culinary Arts, Travel
Diana Page: urban myths
By Maggie Quigley Pinar | December 9, 2012
Diana Page's popup art show (December 7 - 8, 2012) was a passing feature. It gave us a brief glimpse of the fragments of imagery with which the artist crafts her urban myths. In her work, mysteriously metamorphosing forms hover poised between states, elusive solids dissolve into transience, open framed...
Contemporary Istanbul 2012
By Michael Hornsby | November 24, 2012
All told there are about 100 galleries showing at Contemporary Istanbul this year, catering to a huge variety of taste. For Cornucopia a tour of the lower floor from our stand by the Art Cafe starts with sweeping titanium sculpture by Ilhan Koman, pressed-flower copper ‘canvases’ by Tayfun Erdoğmuş, dots by...
Contemporary Art
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Exhibition
Sadberk Hanım Museum, Upper Bosphorus (Europe), Istanbul
December 7, 2012 – June 30, 2013
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Exhibition
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston
February 20, 2013 – July 14, 2013
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Research Centre for Anatolian Civilisations (RCAC), Galatasaray, Istanbul
March 8, 2013 – June 10, 2013
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The Queen’s Gallery, Edinburgh
March 8, 2013 – July 21, 2013
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Armaggan Nuruosmaniye Art and Design Gallery, Kapalıçarşı/The Covered Bazaar, Istanbul
March 20, 2013 – May 29, 2013
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