Cornucopia Magazine

11/12/2024

It’s perfect weather for some soulful jazz. Read ‘Where to go for Jazz in Turkey’ by our music critic John Dyson Shakespeare in today’s blog! Link in bio.

04/12/2024

🥁🥁🥁 Istanbul’s music scene comes to life this December starting this weekend with Imer Demirer at the , at , the Deniz Bank Concerts with the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra will play at as well as the 11 am coffee concerts with piano soloist Gökhan Aybulus.

PLUS, Saturday night the AKM opera season will open with Don Giovanni.

For different tastes, Jakuzi will be playing at Salon IKSV Friday night and at Arter will open the stage to ‘New Music’ in a 3 day Festival including the works of David Tudor and members of Composers Inside Electronics Inc. Photograph of Dilek Sert Erdogan above.
Go to our website’s diary pages for details. link in bio

13/11/2024

Verwegenheit: Paintings by Rahşan Düren at the Tarhan Han in Beyoglu till 31 December. Closed Sundays and Mondays.
Plus … read the new blog post by John Dyson (link in bio) on the amazing jazz concert at the opening!

09/11/2024

Tamerlano in Tashkent reviewed by in todays blog. Go to our website - link in bio ‘a tragedy with a new twist’

23/09/2024

Wednesday 20 November, Leighton House, London

by Talent Unlimited

18/09/2024

Calculations and Coincidences opened tonight at the Pera Museum.

08/09/2024

Chiharu Shiota: Between Worlds now at the Istanbul Modern, running till 20 April, 2025. Curated by Öykü Özsoy Sağnak.

06/09/2024

Istanbul Modern has opened it’s exciting new exhibit to the public: Between Worlds by Chiharu Shiota. September 6, 2024 - April 20, 2025

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.
1. 2. 3. 4. .arslan 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

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.