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Gallery walkabout: Karaköy to Galatasaray
Over the next few weeks, as we round off our gallery walks before the summer break, we take you on a number of walks in the art hubs of Karaköy, Tophane and Beyoğlu. This week, we have two new...
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Young architects wow Istanbullus and visitors with a new installation
Earlier this week, Istanbul Modern’s Young Architects Programme (YAP) unveiled an incredible new work by its 2014–15 finalists. The setting up of the temporary structure ‘All That is Solid’ was...
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Gallery walkabout: Tophane to Cihangir
This week, we take a walk from Tophane to Cihangir, visiting some very diverse group and solo shows. Some of the works in Soazic Guezennec’s ‘Happy Owners’ show SOAZIC GUEZENNEC’S HAPPY OWNERS Let’s...
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This social commentary will have you in stitches
Bravo, Pera Museum. An exhibition of the powerhouse contemporary artist and 2003 Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry in Turkey is long overdue. But Perry fans, the wait is over. The Pera Museum has...
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The caravan is back
Very good to be trotting back to London's HALI Fair. Well not quite the HALI Fair yet, but HALI at the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair, a good start after 10 years' absence, even if not...
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Soaring high at Olympia
The first weekend of HALI at Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair was off to a good start. Robert Chenciner (author of a memorable article in Cornucopia 28, ‘The Peoples that Time Forgot’),...
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Stories from Olympia
Our neighbour at HALI at Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair, the carpet dealer Gideon Hatch, was commissioned last year to design a carpet to go with a client’s recently acquired tapestry...
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Gallery walkabout: Beyoğlu
For our last gallery walk of the season, we visit some scintillating shows in young and veteran galleries and museums in the heart of the European city, Beyoğlu. Although many galleries are closing...
View ArticleGarden of woven delights
Inspiring design motifs abound at the Halı Gallery at Olympia Art & Antiques Fair. James Cohen Antique Carpets presents this magnificent silk Bukhara suzani on Stand 44. Price on request. James’...
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Born to drum
On Friday (June 26), we will be launching Cornucopia’s associate editor and music journalist Tony Barrell’s new book Born to Drum: The Truth About the World's Greatest Drummers (HarperCollins). Clem...
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The fatal Orientalist
In 1842 the gifted young British artist Richard Dadd embarked on a 10-month journey across Europe to the Ottoman lands of the Orient. As a draughtsman and travelling companion to a Welsh gentleman...
View ArticleIstanbul’s art scene: a work in progress
Earlier this year Kerimcan Güleryüz moved his gallery, The Empire Project, from its Sıraselviler Caddesi location in Taksim further down the road to Cihangir. The new gallery looked great when I...
View ArticleSuperlatives on the Bosphorus: the new Istanbul Recitals season
Istanbul Recitals is surely the Bosphorus’s best-kept musical secret: a monthly series of classical piano recitals by visiting virtuosi. Sadly, Kamil Şükûn, the mentor and inspiration behind the...
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Hot weather, cool art
Our round-up of contemporary art shows open this summer, by neighbourhood. Magnum – Contact Sheets Karaköy/Tophane A few things of interest at Istanbul Modern, starting with the excellent Mehmet...
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A penchant for theatrics: The photography of Cecil Beaton
On show for another two-and-a-half weeks at the Pera Museum are portraits by one of the 20th century’s most important photographers, Cecil Beaton. A bit of a jack of all trades, Beaton was also an...
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The first Orientalist
The 18th-century portrait artist Jean-Étienne Liotard, depicted in this miniature self-portrait in the Royal Collection, is widely seen as the first Orientalist. The four years he spent in Turkey from...
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A contact sheet is worth 1,000 words
There’s still time to catch the excellent Magnum – Contact Sheet show at Istanbul Modern. The museum’s photography exhibitions usually showcase important Turkish photographers or shed light on...
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The weekend of August 1 kicks off three weeks of lively music from Klasik Keyifler – a collaboration of devoted musicians, both students and professionals, who will perform concerts in candle-lit...
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Telling Turkey’s history through women’s stories
Women’s stories take centre stage in a fascinating show currently on at the TwentseWelle in Enschede, Netherlands. The city, close to the German border, is home to thousands of Turkish migrants, so a...
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Capturing the Empire
Beautifully arranged across the foyer and main gallery of the Research Centre for Anatolian Civilisations (RCAC) is the exhibition Camera Ottomana, tracing photography and modernity in the Ottoman...
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