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 ...

This tile panel was originally located in the men’s hot room. The eight rectangular tiles are adorned with Persian couplets in nasta‘līq script from a poem highlighting the hamam's significance in ...

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 ...

Paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos tell the story of Turkey’s progress in the last 70 years as it moves forward in technology, innovation and infrastructure. Originally displayed by the ...

Esra Özdoğan’s solo exhibition, The Ghost in the Machine, curated by Çağla Özbek, invites viewers into a world where the boundaries between life, death, and illusion are constantly shifting. The title ...

25th Levantine Heritage Foundation Zoom lecture gathering with guest speaker Prof. Uri M. Kupferschmidt. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Middle East experienced a period of ...

Two highly-skilled violinists – Ksenia Milas, born in St Petersburg, and Oleksandr Semchuk, born in Ukraine – are to play a selection of Baroque and more modern works. This concert is entitled Sade ve ...

Pi Artworks Istanbul presents two unique performances as part of Fabio Lattanzi Antinori’s solo exhibition, Chased by Unicorns. Having created an international survey asking how we define ‘happiness’ ...

This one-day workshop, commemorating Turkey’s Republic centenary, reexamines Turkish secularism from its inception to contemporary discussions about desecularisation under the Justice and Development ...

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 ...

There is something truly wonderful about the the London Antique Rugs and Textile Fair this year. It has slightly fewer exhibitors – 15 in all, which means some friends are missing – but it means their ...

Reviewed in the next issue of Cornucopia by William Kynan-Wilson is a facsimile of an extraordinary Turkish book of manners, Scenes from the 16th CenturyOttoman Empire I: Facsimile of Türkische ...