Cornucopia’s choice: the pick of cultural events in Istanbul and around the world
The Western Ottomanists’ Workshop brings together scholars and researchers based in the Western regions of the United States and Canada who are working to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire and its interactions with the wider world from the period of the late 13th century up until the early decades of the 20th century.
Venice September 28, 2013 – April 27, 2014 8.30–17.30
Arthur M Sackler Museum, Washington DC December 14, 2013 – May 4, 2014
Berlin January 24, 2014 – May 4, 2014 Daily (except Tuesdays and Sundays) 12.00 noon – 7.00pm
With An Ecosystem of Excess, the Turkish artist Pinar Yoldaş creates a post-human ecosystem of speculative organisms and their imagined environment.
Istanbul May 7, 2014 – May 13, 2014
The Oriental Rug and Textile Society is delighted to announce the opening of its annual ORTS Cup Award 2014.
Daunt Books, London May 15, 2014 Thursday at 7pm
The problem of Russia dominated the 20th century. Orlando Figes, a widely read modern historian of Russia, tells the story in an illuminating short history.
Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), London March 26, 2014 – May 17, 2014
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon February 28, 2014 – May 18, 2014
The Metropolitan Museum, New York March 3, 2014 – June 6, 2014
Free guided tours of the MET’s wonderful Ancient Art of the Near East collection
Great Britain April 24, 2014 – June 10, 2014 Booking now open
Sadberk Hanım Museum
December 6, 2013 – May 25, 2014
From the intense orange glaze of the fierce nose and eyebrow arches of a female-formed chalcolithic vessel to the ravishing emerald glow of a tiny bottle from the Roman Imperial period, here are objects to catch the eye
Distant Neighbours, Close Memories exhibition at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum
March 7 to June 15, 2013
Nearly 350 items and artworks tracing 600 years of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Poland
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul November 28, 2013 – April 27, 2014
ARTER, Tünel, Istanbul February 8, 2014 – April 27, 2014
Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul May 10, 2013 – May 10, 2014
Sadberk Hanım Museum, Sarıyer and the European shore of the upper Bosphorus, Istanbul December 6, 2013 – May 14, 2014
SALT Beyoğlu, Galatasaray, Istanbul March 7, 2014 – May 21, 2014
Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul March 7, 2014 – June 15, 2014
Istanbul May 31, 2014 – June 27, 2014 Various
Research Centre for Anatolian Civilisations (RCAC), Galatasaray, Istanbul June 16, 2014 – July 4, 2014 TBA
Elipsis Gallery, Karaköy/Tophane, Istanbul
March 13, 2014 – April 26, 2014
Kasa Galeri, Karaköy/Tophane, Istanbul
April 2, 2014 – April 26, 2014
Galeri Linart, Nişantaşı, Istanbul
March 20, 2014 – April 26, 2014
x-ist, Nişantaşı, Istanbul
April 3, 2014 – April 26, 2014
Milli Reasürans Gallery, Nişantaşı, Istanbul
March 18, 2014 – April 26, 2014
Two Temple Place, London
January 31, 2014 – April 27, 2014
The British Association for Turkish Area Studies (BATAS), Great Britain
April 26, 2014
London
September 8, 2014 – September 9, 2014
Aga Khan Museum
October 16, 2014 – October 18, 2014
Süreyya Opera House, Kadıköy and Moda, Istanbul
April 28, 2014
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall, Nişantaşı, Istanbul
April 29, 2014
Nardis Jazz Club, Tünel, Istanbul
April 1, 2014 – April 30, 2014
Salon IKSV, Tünel, Istanbul
April 30, 2014
Issue 50, Autumn 2013
Istanbul Unwrapped
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