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From Istanbul to Sharjah and back again
Istanbul is making quite the splash at the 13th Sharjah Biennial, which opened on March 10 and will run until June 12. Out of the four artists awarded the 2017 Sharjah Biennial Prize, two – İnci...
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Felt meets silk
Traditional Shyrdak rugs made by nomads in Kyrgyzstan – tangible elements of a resilient culture – have turned into the stuff of high fashion. ‘Appaloosa des Steppes’, designed by the artist Alice...
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John Freely 1926–2017
Everyone at Cornucopia is immensely saddened to learn that the great John Freely passed away early yesterday morning. We have lost a cherished friend of the Bosphorus, the incomparable bard of old...
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Weekend gallery guide: entrancing videos
I'm embarassed to admit that I often find video installations tiresome. Call it impatience or ineptitude, but I rarely have it in me to sit and digest moving images in an exhibition setting. So I was...
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Rich pickings: heirlooms from Ottoman Bohemia and the cotton barons of...
The spring Islamic sales are viewing this weekend in Bond Street and elsewhere in London. These wonderfully graphic, almost sensual, velvet panels are tipped to break records at Sotheby’s on April 26...
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Rewarding reads: March and April 2017
In this blog series, we highlight some of our favourite Turkey-related articles and news titbits that we’ve read over the past month (or two, in this case). A relief uncovered by chance in eastern...
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In the increasingly dystopian political atmosphere of an emerging populist world order, older and more essential human values were aired on Thursday night when the Amsterdam-based string ensemble,...
View Article‘Travellers and Treasures’ at the Nomads Tent
This year’s well-attended symposium opened with Ottoman historian Caroline Finkel’s introduction to the extraordinary 17th century Ottoman adventurer, Evliya Çelebi. That Evliya is relatively unknown...
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Weekend gallery guide: Before they go
Quite a few of Istanbul’s exciting exhibitions are closing in the next week, including some that close this week. If you’re trying to figure out what art to prioritize on your days off this weekend,...
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Weekend gallery guide: Layers on layers
The shows you should catch this weekend are all about textures, from layered collages to the layers of history. Don’t miss these exhibitions that are closing this week. The Pope and Galileo Had a...
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Weekend Gallery Guide 6/24-6/25
With Ramadan ending, this weekend brings the beginning of the Bayram holiday and a mad rush out of the city. But don’t worry if you don’t have plans to flee to a beach. The quiet Istanbul streets and...
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Weekend gallery guide: Two closings and an opening
Start July right, with two closing exhibitions and one that’s just opening. We all need to get out of the sunshine every once in a while, why not explore Istanbul’s art scene? Bubbles in Istanbul...
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Turkish bath revival steams ahead
The refurbishment of Manchester’s Victoria Turkish Baths (above), recently opened to great national hurrahs, is part of a reawakening of the interest in Turkish baths that gripped Britain a century...
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Aphrodisias added to Unesco list
Aphrodisias, the cover story in *Cornucopia 11, was a notable addition to this year’s list of Unesco World Heritage Sites. It is the 17th in Turkey to achieve this status, which includes a diversity...
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Weekend gallery guide: Chaos and calm
Two shows are closing this weekend, one collaborative and chaotic, one calm and quiet. Both are worth catching before they slip away. In the Blink of a Bird at DEPO, Tophane This show is accompanied...
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Weekend gallery guide: At the Modern
With the Istanbul Modern’s summer exhibitions closing soon, don’t miss the chance to see the excellent artists on display. Fahrelnissa Zeid: A Selection from the Istanbul Modern Collection at Istanbul...
View ArticleWeekend gallery guide: Echoes of war
Looking for something to do this weekend? Here’s one exhibit you should be sure to catch. Echo of Homs at Depo, Tophane Depo’s show Echo of Homs isn’t about war, which somehow makes the specter of war...
View ArticleTulip art via Amsterdam
Inspired in part by his name, the British conceptual artist Gavin Turk has curated an exhibition based on tulips, currently on show at the Bowes Museum in Teesdale, UK. The idea was put forward by...
View ArticleWeekend gallery guide: Sprawling and free-wheeling
Two very different shows are on view on Bankalar Caddesi, one a sprawling and free-wheeling exhibition of a collective, and the other a collection of various artists. Each, though, use their scope to...
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On an Island
…Waves roll Lift us in blue Drift us Seep right through And colour us blue… excerpt from ‘The Blue', written by David Gilmour/Polly Samson, on D Gilmour’s On an Island album (2006) David Gilmour’s...
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