Cornucopia Magazine

30/07/2024

Don’t miss a youthful Murray Perahia playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 12 with the English Chamber Orchestra in John Shakespeare Dyson’s latest music review. (link in profile) or go to the blog on our website.

06/06/2024

ICOC’s first day got off a bit late but jolly. Tomorrow the talks start, amazingly beautiful carpets and kilims displayed on the entrance floor… more to come.

05/06/2024

Did you know that our ENTIRE back issue archive is in digital form and available online?! For a starter go to the link in bio and have a preview of issue 37, dedicated to textiles and weaves, when the last ICOC was in town in 2007. And go to our website to subscribe to the digital archive. 🐑

03/06/2024

ICOC (International Conference on Oriental Carpets) is coming back to Istanbul for the first time since 2007 and we will be there to greet you at our stand at the Dealers Fair at the Marmara Hotel in Taksim! June 6-9th. 🐑

This great event will include numerous talks by local and International scholars on the theme, ‘Oriental Carpets Yesterday and Today, The Future of Tradition’..

Special collections will be exhibited at several venues around town. The Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum will uncover some of their hidden gems, most of them never seen before, including pieces from the 12th to the 17th century.

Textiles and rugs from the Topkapi Harem dating from the 16th century will be shown at Dolmabahce Palace and a private preview can be booked for the ‘Garments of the Imperial’ exhibition showing Kaftans and talismanic shirts among other eccentric textiles.

Some better known collectors will show their flatweaves, kilims, rugs and high value small objects at the Tophane-i Amire.

Specific gallery exhibitions will be going on around Sultan Ahmet and the Bazaar district. Belkis Balpinar the artist, author and scholar will have an exhibition of her special weaves at Anna Laudel Gallery, opening June 7th.

The famous American nomad, Josephine Powell’s Anatolia collection will open to guests at the Koc’s Buyukdere Evi. (see Cornucopia’s issue 47. Reception on Sunday.

and there is still more! The program is in the website - go to the link in our profile. Above: PRAYER RUG WALL HANGING (‘SAJJADA LIL-ZAINA’)circa. 1870
Zouk Mikael (Lebanon Mountain), Ottoman Lebanon
Tapestry flat weave. Woven in silk, gold and silver metallic thread on a cotton foundation. 2. Kapadokya kilim private collection - will be exhibited at Tophane-i Amire. .balpinar

27/05/2024

On the Way to the Fountain. Gölbaşı, Ankara 1970’s.

Our new blog post celebrates Istanbul Modern’s ongoing stunning photography exhibition of the master Ozan Sadıç.

Two of Cornucopia’s photographers at large, Monica Fritz and Annette Solakoğlu select a few of their favorites to comment on. Many thanks to the curators for their support. Link in bio superb printing by

24/05/2024

Mardin Biennial and the parallel exhibitions are still on till 10 June!
Now is the best time to visit, the crowds have died down and the planes are still green.
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02/05/2024

Andrew Finkel samples a small Beyoğlu eatery that is Rutin/Routine but not by nature. Link in bio http://www.cornucopia.net/blog/rutin/

28/04/2024

Go to our blog to read about gems from the latest London auction houses. A world apart: London Islamic Sales. http://www.cornucopia.net/blog/a-world-apart/
Stay in touch for more news on the Bonhams Islamic and Indian sale May 21.
‘Everything is in the detail of Lot 306 at Sotheby’s by Jean-Léon Gérôme… the exquisitely captured folds of the skirt, the light pouring through the latticed window. The measurements are a diminutive 35.5 by 25cm. The estimate for this gem of a painting unsurprisingly £150,000 - 250,000. For any museum without its Gérôme this is the one to hanker after.’ Cornucopia Connoisseur.

06/04/2024

Cornucopia’s ‘photographer at large’ Monica Fritz will be having her first solo exhibition in Istanbul of her personal work, April 19th - May 18th at the Şule Gazioğlu Gallery in Emirgan. Open Monday to Saturday 11am-6pm We hope to see you there.1. Vicari, Sicily 3.Sciacca, Sicily 3.Moda, Istanbul 4.Galata, Istanbul 5.Cairo, Egypt 6. Hyderabad, India ph.

21/03/2024

Our music critic John Dyson Shakespeare has been to the opera! Maometto Secundo, first performed in Naples in 1820! Go to our blog and have a read and a listen too.

16/03/2024

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Talent Unlimited Showcase concert on 18 April, 7pm at St James’s Church, Piccadilly, LONDON W1J 9LL

Kenny Fu, piano; William Jack, cello; Neo Hung, piano; Muriel Oberhofer, violin

08/03/2024

Happy Women’s Day!

Image taken from the Ömer Koç collection. Four women in an interior, Brussa. Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, 1841 ‘Clothes here differenciate the social status of women, who are clearly membersof a colse-knit Armenian family. Cornucopia issue 45. Drawing from Life by Briony Llewellyn

26/02/2024

Cornucopia Magazine’s first novel as Evenkeel Press is launched and available through our website!

The author, Andrew Finkel, will be in conversation at our Scotland office in Hawick on March 3rd from 4-6pm. If you are in the area we’d be delighted to see you, come join the conversation and get your signed copy of the book.

Unit Four is both a bookshop and an arts venue and home to our subscriptions office. Details in the link in bio. https://www.cornucopia.net/events/the-adventure-of-the-second-wife/

14/02/2024

We are delighted to welcome Andrew Finkel to Cornucopia: Unit Four in the Scottish Borders to talk about his new book. Sunday 3 March 4–6pm

Book signing and author conversation March 3, 2024

12/02/2024

Cornucopia’s first novel is out and available for pre-order! 🎩
The Adventure of the Second Wife, The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and the Ottoman Sultan. by Andrew Finkel
‘The Adventure of the Second Wife is the debut novel of renowned journalist Andrew Finkel – a clever, compelling mystery about a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast who with the help of a brilliant Turkish professor, tries to solve the enigma of Arthur Conan Doyle’s dying words only to upend his life in the process.’
Signed copies are available on request ✒️. See the link in bio to pre-order.

01/02/2024

Good news! Cornucopia digital subscribers will soon have the entire catalogue of all 66 back issues available at their fingertips online. We are working our way backwards. Issues 12 and 13 (dating back to 1997) have just gone up – which means less than a dozen to go.

A Special VALENTINE OFFER! Use this code Valentine2024 and save 20%. Offer expires February 15th. The subscription lasts one year, you can set it to start on the 14th and include a message. 💝

This will allow access on your tablet, phone or computer to all 55 back issues. Cornucopia always makes a wonderful gift, it’s very simple to join, go to the link in our bio and send it to friends and relatives. https://shop.exacteditions.com/gb/basket

These new additions are beautiful to look at and a pleasure to read. Journey to the Çoruh valley with Brian Sewell and the great photographer Simon Upton. The late Patricia Daunt travelled with Simon to the amazing chestnut wood mansions of Çamlihemşin. Number 13 is the famous (and now rare) special issue on the Turkish garden. Scott Redford writes about the Seljuk gardens of the Mediterranean, John Carswell on the flowers that decorate the famous Rüstem Pasha mosque, and the great botanist Andrew Byfield on the rhododendron flowers of the Black Sea which produce the honey that drove Xenophon’s men mad (“I often smell R. luteum before I see the plant itself, for so powerful is the scent of its musty bitter-sweet nectar that a few bushes can scent a whole valley, he writes). ph. Daniel Molajoli

25/01/2024

Visit our blog (in the bio) and see a few highlights from this year's LARTA, London Antique Rugs and Textile Fair. It's a bit quieter and special this year, more room to see the pieces and more time to see old and new friends. We are at the top of the stairs, LARTA is open till Sunday. Tickets are £10 from larta.net, entrance free after 4.

18/01/2024

Join author and traveller Barnaby Rogerson to discuss his new book “The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East”.

13/01/2024

It’s that time of year again! If you live or are visiting London, come visit our stand at this year’s LARTA (London Antique Rug and Textile Art Fair). January 23rd till 28th. see the link in bio for details. https://www.cornucopia.net/events/larta-2024/

We would love to meet you, come subscribe, pick up the latest issue, back issues and sign up for the digital subscription! Our digital platform, available to individuals or institutions makes a great gift and provides unlimited access to a searchable archive of dozens of back issues.

03/01/2024

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Film screening and Resilience Workshop at our venue in the Scottish Borders. Sunday 14 January from 1.30pm

Film Screening and Resilience Workshop

16/12/2023

Great news! 🪭 The new Centenary issue nu.66 is now available online. Subscribe now for our digital edition which includes most back issues! Give a digital subscription as a gift ✨or get one free with your print subscription.

and more... Visit our online bookshop, read and listen to our music blog, and go to our wonderful recipes in each issue.

09/12/2023

60 vendors, gifts, surprises, Santa 🎅🏻 Claus and many more surprises…. SUNDAY!!

08/12/2023

We are very excited to announce our Centenary Issue is out and being sent to our subscribers now and will soon be in bookshops! Come visit us at our stand on Sunday at the IWI Christmas Fair, it’ll be a great chance to subscribe with a special offer and find that back issue you are missing.

16/11/2023

We’ve settled in through the weekend. Discounts on books, back issues, paper and digital subscriptions… .art.antique.fair

29/10/2023

Iyi Bayramlar from Kuzguncuk!

17/10/2023

Terence Blanchard played at Zorlu recently and John Dyson had his take on it! Go to our blog for an enjoyable read and listen, not for music lovers only. ‘Never before had I seen this combination and disposition of instruments, and I wondered what sound they would produce when they got going.’
Link in bio

10/10/2023

Don’s Roman Retrospective ‘Life, Death and Everything in Between’ at the Palazzo delle Esposizione has opened and Cornucopia’s publication is happily in the museum’s bookshop.
This is Don McCullin’s biggest show yet including landscapes and still life shown for the first time. If in Rome or passing through this show is a must. On till January 28th. 📷

27/09/2023

Many were devastated to hear the passing of the journalist and friend Metin Münir. Read Andrew Finkel’s salut in our blog site. https://www.cornucopia.net/blog/metin-muenir-19442023/. Link in profile