Bosnia-Herzegovina closes cultural institutions
The targeted burning of Sarajevo’s National and University Library during the city’s siege in 1996 remains one of the most shocking moments of cultural iconoclasm in recent years. As residents and...
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At home with Monet: the Sakıp Sabancı Museum introduces the man behind the...
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...
View ArticleLady Layard’s centenary
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...
View ArticleOld and new: two very different exhibitions at the Pera Museum
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...
View ArticleTop-down ecology: details of a new proposal for dealing with Istanbul’s urban...
The auditorium at Istanbul Modern was packed on Monday morning, as a group of architects and urban designers from the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) presented a proposal for...
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Stimulating conversation: Istanbul coffee houses
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...
View ArticleIstanbul’s contemporary art week
It is a big week for art in Istanbul, and not only because of the Contemporary Istanbul art fair, launching on Thursday. There are several important exhibitions opening, many as part of the Art...
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Contemporary Istanbul 2012
All told there are about 100 galleries showing at Contemporary Istanbul this year, catering to a huge variety of taste. For Cornucopia a tour of the lower floor from our stand by the Art Cafe starts...
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Diana Page: urban myths
Diana Page's popup art show (December 7 - 8, 2012) was a passing feature. It gave us a brief glimpse of the fragments of imagery with which the artist crafts her urban myths. In her work, mysteriously...
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Mellified living: exploring Kars through honey
In a guest post on the Cornucopia blog, Claire Bangser from the Balyolu team explores the sweeter side of Kars, a border town in far-eastern Turkey, famously portrayed as cold and bleak in Orhan...
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A letter from the road
The Cornucopia team were delighted to recieve a letter from Janet Surman, a Cornucopia subscriber, about her recent trip to visit the painted village mosques of Denizli, which feature in the beautiful...
View ArticleSold out? Controversy over an upcoming auction of Turkish modern art
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...
View ArticleCultural exertions: the Cultural Routes Society takes another step forward
A one-click website has been set up for the Culture Routes Society to bring together the 16 waymarked long-distance walks in Turkey. Trailmakers, tour operators, accommodation providers and other...
View ArticleSlightly Foxed, Dreaming of the Bosphorus
The Spring 2013 issue of the quarterly literary journal Slightly Foxed features an article in which Cornucopia contributor Ateş Orga remembers how his father İrfan's novel A Portrait of a Turkish...
View ArticleIznik highlight at the British Museum
Following the success of The World in 100 Objects, the British Museum is now highlighting London: A World City in 20 objects. One of the top 20 objects, chosen by Venetia Porter, the museum's curator...
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The last of the tulips
*A parade of tulips in Gülhane Park, May 2013 (photo: Victoria Khroundina)* The Istanbul Tulip Festival ends for another year today. The festival started eight years ago to revive the city's interest...
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All the fun of the art fair: the Izmir Biennial
Hangar-sized exhibition halls, a seemingly random selection of artists, a cascade of artworks and almost 450 exhibitors from 55 countries… The second BienalIzmir arts festival actually seems less like...
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Lost in Yevpatoria: Anna Akhmatova’s teenage days of helplessness
It was Cornucopia s Travels in Tartary issue – and partly my own Russian heritage – that piqued my interest in delving deeper into the literary figures who laid claim to various parts of Crimea as...
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Chekhov’s summer of love
Yalta, the most prosperous of Crimea’s south-coast cities and a glittering holiday destination of the past and the present, was not only where the Russian playwright and author Anton Chekhov built his...
View ArticlePutting America on the map: Cartographic masterpieces at the Topkapı Palace
Before and After Pîrî Reis: Maps at the Topkapı Palace It’s a simple title but it doesn't prepare you for the treat in the Topkapı stables. The earliest maps on display in this exhibition (until May...
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