Old and new: two very different exhibitions at the Pera Museum
By Michael Hornsby | October 16, 2012
The Pera Museum's main exhibition this autumn consists of 57 portraits of royal and aristocratic children from the Yannick and Ben Jakober Foundation collection. Often commissioned in order to facilitate marriages between royal households, the 16th - 19th century paintings show historical figures in their early years, and reflect the...
Fine Art, Contemporary Art, History, Museums
At home with Monet: the Sakıp Sabancı Museum introduces the man behind the masterpieces
By Michael Hornsby | October 11, 2012
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The first thing you see upon entering the Monet's Garden exhibition at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum is a video of the great painter's garden at Giverny projected onto the walls around you. Ironically, it is possibly the least impressionistic representation of the garden imaginable, but it brilliantly sets up this...
Fine Art, Museums
London’s Islamic Week
By Thomas Roueche | May 7, 2012
London’s Islamic Week is one of the city’s best-kept secrets. Rooms of unique, museum-quality Islamic artefacts go on show twice a year – albeit for only a week – offering those in the know a chance to take a close look at rarities that usually live behind closed doors in...
Fine Art, Islamic Art
Grave folly: Goya comes to Pera
By Michael Hornsby | April 20, 2012
Goya: Witness of His Time, at the Pera Museum, April 20 – July 29 By the time Fransisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746 - 1828) learnt the technique of lithography he already had an impressive career as a court painter behind him. Yet in the several series of prints that...
Fine Art
Where darkness meets light
By Michael Hornsby | February 29, 2012
The blockbuster exhibition of the Dutch Year celebrations has opened at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum. ‘Rembrandt and his Contemporaries, the Golden Age of Dutch Art’ features over a hundred pieces, including 73 masterpieces of Dutch genre painting and several examples of beautiful blue-and-white Delftware ceramics. The exhibition benefits from a...
Fine Art
The lightest of touches
By Sule Bilgin | February 18, 2012
Having visited several other cities in Europe, I have humbly decided that what sets Istanbul apart is its fascinating and ever-changing light. Be it the sparkling shimmer on the waters of Bosphorus, or the warm colours glowing over Çamlıca Hill, it has this particular soothing effect that makes one feel...
Fine Art
Istanbul goes art mad!
By Michael Hornsby | October 10, 2011
AUTUMN EXHIBITION ROUND UP The art world is descending on Istanbul for the 12th Istanbul Biennial, which opened to the public over the weekend. Unlike previous years, the 2011 Biennial is being held only around the waterside warehouses at Tophane. But the city's galleries have risen admirably to the...
Books, Fine Art, Contemporary Art, Film, Photography, Talks and Lectures
Oriental treasures
By Michael Hornsby | September 12, 2011
ART AT AUCTION Nagel Auktionen, Stuttgart, Germany Sale: September 13, 2011. 3 p.m. Viewing: September 10 – 12, 2011. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m; September 13, 2011. 10 a.m. to 12 noon. September 13 sees an auction of very fine Turkish wares in Stuttgart, including Iznik...
Fine Art, Islamic Art
Winners at the podium
By Michael Hornsby | August 25, 2011
The 14th International Congress of Turkish Art Collège de France 11, place Marcelin Berthelot 75231 Paris Cedex tel : +331.44.27.12.11. September 19 - 22 2011 Forget London 2012, or Istanbul's 2020 bid, the Olympics of Turkish art academia are just a few weeks away. The 14th International Congress of Turkish...
Books, Fine Art, Islamic Art, Talks and Lectures
Orientalisme Art Islamique: Paris Auction
By admin | May 19, 2011
Gros & Delettrez Monday 20th June 2011 Drouot-Richelieu-Salle 1-7 22 rue Drouot, Paris www.gros-delettrez.com
Fine Art, Islamic Art
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