Bursa: a protected treasure
By Victoria Khroundina | May 15, 2013
A Silk Road city a hundred miles south of Istanbul, Bursa has salvaged enough of its fabled beauty to make it well worth exploring. The birthplace of the Ottoman Empire, it is the best place to get an Iskender kebap, even the inspiration for Turkish puppetry (the shadow play characters...
History, Travel
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
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
Stimulating conversation: Istanbul coffee houses
By Şule Bilgin | November 7, 2012
Above: Hoca Ali Riza’s ‘Conversing by Moonlight on the Bosphorus’ (courtesy of the Ferda–İbrahim İpeker Collection) Notes on the first in the Orient Institut Istanbul's series of talks, Reclaiming Istanbul: Public Spaces in Past and Present: The Kahvehane, by Dr Cengiz Kırlı, a lecturer at Boğazici Univeristy and author of Sultan ve Kamuoyu (The...
History, Talks and Lectures
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
Lady Layard’s centenary
By David Barchard | October 15, 2012
On November 1, 1912, Lady Layard, the widow of Sir Henry Layard, died in her palazzo Ca’Capello in Venice. She was 69 and had outlived her husband by 18 years. He had been in Turkey as a young man in the 1830s and 1840s, working as an attaché to Sir...
History
What Josephine Saw
By Michael Hornsby | June 27, 2012
Whether they stay in Sultanahmet or Beyoğlu, visitors to Istanbul this summer have the chance to see the late Josephine Powell’s remarkable photographs of Anatolian nomadic and rural life at a nearby venue. The exhibition at the Research Centre for Anatolian Civilisations on Istiklal Caddesi, which featured on the cover of...
Books, Film, History, Museums, Photography, Travel
Great northeastern getaway
By Michael Hornsby | May 25, 2012
Last weekend I was in Turkey’s Eastern Black Sea Mountains, about as far from the South Aegean tourist spots as is possible to get without someone stamping my passport. And as a break from the increasingly popular Istanbul it was a good reminder that here at Cornucopia we don’t just...
Contemporary Art, History, Museums
Tulips and tulipmania
By Thomas Roueche | May 25, 2012
Although for most of us the tulip has come to symbolise the Netherlands, the flower is completely taken for granted by the Dutch. While tourists from around the world – particularly from Japan and the USA – flock to see bulbs, fields and flowers, the Dutch can buy 50 cut...
History, Museums
Sagalassos, City of Dreams: last weeks
By Thomas Roueche | May 24, 2012
The small town of Tongeren may be relatively unknown today but in the days of Imperial Rome it was a large and bustling city, on the empire’s border with the Germanic tribes. Today it is home to the large Gallo-Romeins Museum, awarded the prize of ‘European Museum of the Year’...
History
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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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