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 ...

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, ...

Gürer Aykal conducts the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert of Russian music entitled ‘March-past of the Masters’ (*Ustalar Geçidi*).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The curtain rose to reveal an enormous sculpture of a horse’s head, equalling the height of the theatre and encased in a cube of LED-lit scaffolding. This was the opening night of Handel’s Tamerlano, ...

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 ...

The Adventure of the Second Wife is the debut novel of renowned journalist and Cornucopia contributing editor Andrew Finkel. It’s a compelling mystery about a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast who, with the ...

Tickets from biletix.com. Prices: 99TL, 132TL, 165TL. Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall (CRR), Dar’ül Bedayi Cad No 6, Harbiye, 34371 İstanbul The Tambuco Percussion Ensemble, founded in Mexico in 1993, ...

Istanbul Modern Cinema brings a selection of 10 films from the Locarno Film Festival, one of the oldest film festivals in the world, to Istanbul for the first time. Switzerland’s most prestigious film ...

In medias res, the curtain rising on the action in full flow, might seem an odd eulogy to recite over the memory of a dear friend, but Robert Chenciner was someone in perpetual motion and even now it ...