The works of the Portuguese-British artist, Paula Rego, are now exhibited in Turkey for the first time. Curated by Alistair Hicks, the exhibition was planned with the participation of the late artist, ...

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 ...

Cellist Münif Akalın and pianist Deniz Akalın (his son) perform sonatas by J.S. Bach, Brahms and Shostakovich plus a movement from D Popper’s Polonaise de Concert ...

It was with great sadness that I heard the news that my beautiful, intelligent, rebellious friend Philippa Scott had died. Her delicate Pre-Raphaelite looks belied a determined, fearless and ...

The inimitable Sibel Köse, dubbed ‘the Queen of European Jazz’, is a vocalist of outstanding talent. Last time I saw Sibel perform, I wrote: ‘Over the three-and-a-bit years since I last had the ...

After the outbreak of the Greek Revolution of 1821, the Catholics of the Aegean islands declared their neutrality in the Greek-Ottoman conflict, raised the French flag on top of their churches and ...

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 ...

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 ...

On June 8 I took a train on the Marmaray line to Söğütlüçeşme, the station in the valley behind Kadıköy through which the Kurbağalıdere Stream passes on its way to join the Sea of Marmara.

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 ...

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 ...

We write with great sadness of the sudden death of Briony Llewellyn, a dear friend to many and a notable contributor to Cornucopia. Briony's lifelong work on British artists in the Near and Middle ...