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Music to the eyes
As it celebrates its 10th anniversary Istanbul Modern is exploring the history of visual art in Turkey and in the surrounding region. From January to June, Neighbours examined contemporary art in...
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‘The Water Diviner’
To commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign, and more widely the First World War, any number of projects have been initiated, including exhibitions, conferences, publications and films....
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‘Quick as boiled asparagus’
The Res Gestae Divi Augusti (The Works of the Divine Augustus) in the sadly neglected Temple of Augustus in Ankara (photographed by John Henry Haynes in 1884). THE ANNIVERSARY OF A COLOSSUS There are...
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Pando Kaymak faces possible closure
We were sad to hear news that a Beşiktaş – well, an Istanbul really – institution faces possible closure. Pando Kaymak, a favourite breakfast spot that makes its venerable kaymak (clotted cream) on...
View ArticleLearning about cities through images
We are eagerly awaiting the ‘Images of the Other: Istanbul, Vienna, Venice’ conference, to be held between September 2 and 4. The conference will bring together scholars, architects, photographers,...
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Sarkis at the Venice Biennale
Some exciting news from the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) last week, as it announced that the artist Sarkis will be representing Turkey at next year’s la Biennale di Venezia (Venice...
View ArticleLooking for Hadrian
Earlier this month, excavations began in Kyzikos, a 2,500-year-old city in Balıkesir, in northwest Turkey. The prize in sight? A relief of Hadrian. Speaking to Hürriyet Daily News last week, the head...
View ArticleDocumentary sheds light on Turkish pop cinema
This year, which commemorates the centenary of the birth of Turkish cinema, has thankfully been a very successful one for Turkey’s film industry. The biggest news of the year has been that Nuri Bilge...
View ArticleTurkey’s brain drain: is it reversing?
‘There were no opportunities for genetic engineers in Turkey when I graduated,’ says Pelin, stirring sugar into her tea. We are having dinner at her place in Oxford on one of my recent visits there....
View ArticleThat celluloid spirit
Submissions are not invited for the next Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. The fifth edition of the festival, celebrating experimental film and moving-image art, will take place between April 16...
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‘Images of the Other’ conference: an overview
A fascinating conference took place this week exploring how cities are perceived through imagery. Scholars, architects, photographers, writers, artists and film-makers convened in a spacious and...
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Gallery walkabout: Tophane
After the summer hiatus, galleries are opening up for an exciting new season and that means our gallery walks are back. We begin in the gallery hub of Tophane for our first walk of the season. Ma...
View ArticleUnderstanding cocktails
Some years ago I travelled to the Phrygian capital of Gordion to attend a recreation of King Midas’s funereal feast where the recipes were recreated through infrared spectroscopic analysis of the...
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Take a shot
The Istanbul Photo Contest is now accepting entries for its 2014 competition. Launched in 2008 by Les Arts Turcs, the contest was set up to give international photographers the opportunity to ‘capture...
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The winds of change
Dolphins joined the 12-strong fleet of extreme sailing catamarans close to the shore at Yenikapı as the Istanbul Extreme Regatta got underway, and they were not the only things that were flying out of...
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Gallery walkabout: Beyoğlu
We are in bustling Beyoğlu this week for some diverse and thoroughly fascinating shows. Exhibition view Let’s start in the middle of İstiklâl Caddesi (past the Galatasaray Lycée) at SALT Beyoğlu...
View ArticleThe Scottish Referendum
As our readers know, Cornucopia Magazine is all about Turkey, but it has one foot in Istanbul and one foot in the Scottish Borders. So today is a day of reckoning. Having watched Turkey take the first...
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ArtInternational 2014: what’s in store
Anticipation is high for the second edition of this art fair, aiming to challenge the veteran Contemporary Istanbul. ArtInternational is still very much the new kid on the block, but the fair is set...
View ArticleA union as old as the hills
CREETOWN GRANITE Formed from an enormous blob of molten rock, this granite may have been created when continents collided and Scotland and England were united. Trapped beneath the earth's surface it...
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Gallery walkabout: Taksim to Cihangir
This week we are in Taksim and Cihangir for our gallery walk, where three of our favourite galleries are hosting powerful solo/duo shows. C M Koseman, ‘Errant Head’, 2014, acrylic on art paper, 70 x...
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