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Gallery walkabout: Karaköy/Tophane
In part 2 of our Karaköy/Tophane walk, we visit museums, galleries and art institutions for diverse exhibitions spanning architecture, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing and installation....
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World Art Dubai is almost here
In just over three weeks, World Art Dubai, the region’s hotly anticipated new art fair, will launch at the Dubai World Trade Centre. It has so far been announced that 49 galleries from 15 countries...
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Inside story: Cappadocia part 2
In this blog series, the photographer Lynn Gilbert takes us on a journey through Turkish homes. The below room is housed in a stately old mansion situated on a treacherously steep cobblestone road in...
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Gallery walkabout: Beyoğlu
On the first leg of our two-part Beyoğlu walk, we visit galleries from all corners of the neighbourhood, from Tünel to Cihangir, stopping by a famous building packed with galleries, the Mısır...
View ArticleYaşar Kemal, a writer’s hero
Joobin Bekhrad’s moving tribute to Yaşar Kemal in Reorient magazine perfectly encapsulates the legacy the novelist left not only within Turkey’s literary history, but for storytelling in general....
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Gallery walkabout: back in Beyoğlu
On part 2 of our Beyoğlu walk, we visit galleries, museums and art institutions, from Tünel to Cihangir, hosting assorted solo and group shows. Many of the exhibitions are highly conceptual – some...
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An orgy of destruction
The scale of destuction is simply jawdropping. To learn more about the horrors inflicted so far on the Belgrade Forest, visit the Northern Forests Defence association (Kuzey Ormanlari Savunması, or...
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The body in time
Unlike the majority of ARTER’s exhibitions, Ali Kazma’s timemaker doesn’t immediataely draw you in off the street. And that is because, unlike Marc Quinn’s show with his giant shell sculpture, or the...
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Gallery walkabout: Nişantaşı
In this first section of our two-part Nişantaşı walk we visit six galleries hosting solo and group shows, comprising painting, photography and mixed media works. Franz Ackermann, ‘Bohol’, 2012, mixed...
View ArticleIt’s film festival time
My favourite time of the year – Istanbul Film Festival time – is here! For two whole weeks, cinephiles can binge on more than 200 films from 62 countries screened at nine cinemas, with the festival...
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Gallery walkabout: Nişantaşı
On the second part of our Nişantaşı walk we visit another six galleries offering solo shows of artists working in the disciplines of painting, sculpture, photography and design. Up for grabs are...
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Another one bites the dust
Another natural sight, that is. I got photos this morning from Istanbul Revolution, an activist group that operates from Facebook (one that the government no doubt would love to shut down with its...
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Put your best foot forward
The current exhibition on at the Sadberk Hanım Museum gives visitors a slice of Ottoman life – more specifically, what the Ottomans wore on their feet. Well-laid out over three rooms, visitors can get...
View ArticleA man of vision: Kamil Şükûn, founder of the Istanbul Recitals concert series
Mehmet Kamil Şükûn (1948–2015) The Istanbul Recitals is a monthly series of tip-top recitals by fabulously talented musicians from San Francisco to Beijing, a shining light on the Bosphorus, and one...
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Gallery walkabout: Beşiktaş
For our walk this week, we are in Beşiktaş, where most of the galleries are showing solo shows, with two group exhibitions the mix. Don’t underestimate this humble neighbourhood – it is home to some...
View ArticleIstanbul film festival woes: bureaucracy or censorship?
If you’re been following the blog, you would know that Istanbul is the throes of its annual film festival. It’s 34th, in fact, so things have been going well. Until now. On Sunday, I got an email from...
View ArticleThe writing on the stone
Archaelogy lovers, this might be of interest. We received an email from Professor Martin Ferguson Smith via the Anglo-Turkish Society alerting us that a short film shot at the archaeological site of...
View ArticleSelim III’s gift to Tiger of Mysore
A beautiful Ottoman horse’s bridle of red morocco and gilt brass is part of the spring sale of Islamic and Indian Art at Bonhams New Bond Street on April 21. It was a gift from Ottoman Sultan Selim...
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Gallery walkabout: Karaköy/Tophane
This week we’re in Karaköy/Tophane, the city’s undisputed gallery hub, for a diverse walk exploring both serious and lighter topics. Onur Gülfidan, ‘Knock on wood’, 2015, 120 x 120 cm ONUR GÜLFIDAN’S...
View ArticleBlack-diamond time
A slightly sniffy email yesterday from our friend David Barchard, in the heart of Cappadocia. ‘One stall was selling a box of little things that looked a bit like small potatoes in the market today,’...
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