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Winter has brought shorter and colder days, but there is also an abundance of interesting museum exhibitions and gallery shows to lighten the day.
In London, two highlights are the British Museum’s Troy: Myth and Reality and a sweeping exposition of the Islamic influence in Western Art, Inspired by the East.
Istanbul has a number of intriguing events from contemporary art and botanical photography to Ottoman manuscripts. Hayal İncedoğan’s In the Shade of Time is at Anna Laudel until 19 January, the IAE’s Memories of Humankind until 25 July. Browse more exhibitions here.
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Described by his friend the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray as ‘a languid Lotus-eater’, the Victorian Orientalist JF Lewis travelled to Turkey and Egypt and recreated what he saw of Ottoman life in loving, exotic detail – often painting himself and his wife into his pictures clad in elaborate local dress. Briony Llewellyn looks back over a life of many colours
Two shows in Istanbul featuring the English-born Navine G Khan-Dossos, a visual artist steeped in the Islamic tradition, afford a rare chance to see an expanded vision of her measured philosophy.
Beloved of birds and bees, prized by Ottoman sultans and Bourbon kings, pears are a particular joy eaten ripe from the tree. But cooking coaxes the flavour out of even those mass-market varieties grown for a long shelf life and ripened in cold storage
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