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
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
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
From Herengracht to the Bosphorus
By Thomas Roueche | June 6, 2012
The floorboards of the Geelvinck-Hinlopen House, facing on to the stately Herengracht in central Amsterdam, come from the ships of the Hinlopen family – ships which plied the oceans of the world, enriching the Hinlopens and their interests in Spain, Africa, Surinam and the West Indies. The elegant house built...
Museums, Photography
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
Current Events
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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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