Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursThe arts diary Cornucopia’s choice. Contributors: John Shakespeare Dyson, Alexandra de Cramer and Monica Fritz Highlights Online Connoisseur Performance Talks and ...

A friend once confessed the frustration of setting a story in Istanbul, a city where not even the past stands still. The place you think you should start is never the place you actually start – and ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursRobert Chenciner (1945–2021) Andrew Finkel pays tribute to the mesmerising Robert Chenciner, a maverick scholar and fond friend, who has died in London By Andrew ...

These lines, part of a poem by the multidisciplinary artist Sine İçli, are positioned in the lower-left corner of the opening wall – an ode to clay and its transformative process. This poem introduces ...

In this, another of the Türk Telekom Prime Coffee Concerts, harpist Çağatay Akyol and Bilgin Canaz, a player of the ney (a Turkish end-blown flute made of hollow cane or giant reed that is used ...

Not the grandest choice of Ottoman finds in this spring's Islamic sale at Christie's, But here are a couple of items that caught the eye in Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, including Rugs and ...

Just one of those days: the Galata Bridge seen through driving rain. Faik Şenol (1912–81), one of the heroes of early Republic photography, acted as Atatürk’s personal photographer, is the focus of ...

Readers of Cornucopia might think they need no introduction to the work of Monica Fritz. For the last decade she has been photographer at large for this magazine, returning from assignments with sharp ...

Pianist Ayşe Tütüncü, known for her skills as a composer, musical arranger and improviser, is the first Turkish person to have had an album of her music (‘Panayır’, 2006) produced by Blue Note Records ...

Pianist Emir Ersoy is to be accompanied by bass guitarist Eylem Pelit, drummer Volkan Öktem, vocalist and percussionist Aleixi Rivera Contreras and trumpeter Sercan Kerpiççiler. Their programme is to ...

The Turkish Republic turns 100 today – not just another candle on the cake, but a reliving of a moment of defiance. A nascent state claimed a very different destiny from that envisaged for it by the ...

Necla Rüzgar’s finely painted watercolours and sculpture hint at ancient tales of suffering and the oppression of women as human figures metamorphose into fantastic hybrid creatures. Her simple images ...