Latest Cornucopia sales figures show continued interest in the photographer and collector
By Cornucopia UK | April 13, 2019
The latest sales figures of Cornucopia’s back numbers show an interest in
issue No. 47, from 2012, which had a striking cover photograph of a young Josephine Powell (1921–2007) describing her as Queen of the Nomads (above left). An article by Andrew Finkel accompanied some of her thousands of photographs...
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The Istanbul Film Festival is undwerway
By Cornucopia UK | April 12, 2019
The 38th Istanbul Film Festival always has such a gluttony of choice that picking tickets can be overwhelming. Watching a movie without any prior knowledge is a rare experience, so I often try to pop into a film I know little about and let myself be surprised. That’s how I...
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New on-line archaeology resource, plus money for wall painting conservation
By Cornucopia UK | March 28, 2019
This map of Seljuk’s historic sites is a sample image from the Getty Conservation Institute’s
Arches, an innovative open-source cultural heritage data management platform, launched at Claridge’s in London yesterday by directors of the J. Paul Getty Trust. The Trust also announced a $5million endowment grant to the Courtauld Institute of...
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The Tekfen Philharmonic Orchestra with Bomsori Kim
By John Shakespeare Dyson | March 24, 2019
The Tekfen Philharmonic Orchestra gave a concert at the Lütfi Kırdar Concert Hall in Istanbul on March 21, 2019 – the day after the Spring Equinox, which happened to coincide with a full moon. The huge open space outside the concert hall, an observation platform set above the valley leading...
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Giudecca is the city’s first permanent arts quarter
By Cornucopia UK | March 21, 2019
The 58th Venice Biennale, opening on May 11, has a new focus on the island of Giudecca, which this week was declared the city’s first permanent arts quarter. More than 60 artists from 30 countries are launching GAD, with a central Giudecca Art District Gallery and Garden adding to ten...
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From constructivism to cosmism and an otherworldly intuition for colour: the SSM’s effusive tribute to the Russian Avant Garde
By Jamie Leptien | March 19, 2019
It’s been 73 years since George Costakis saw Olga Rozanova’s
Green Stripe in a Moscow studio and started the collection that, to paraphrase the art historian Margit Rowell, required the history of 20th-century art to be rewritten. Rewritten not just because of the sheer volume and quality of works by...
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By John Shakespeare Dyson | March 17, 2019
The series of Istanbul Recitals for 2018-2019 at The Seed (the concert hall attached to the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Emirgan), continued with a demonstration of pianistic prowess by the Croatian pianist Goran Filipec on Friday March 15. This was, in fact, Hungary’s National Day, the occasion on which Magyarország...
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Business is bright at the London Book Fair
By Cornucopia UK | March 15, 2019
Book sales were reported to be healthy at the three-day London Book Fair at Olympia, which ended yesterday. Publishers even said that there was little talk of Brexit in their deals. Audio books are up everywhere — perhaps driven by mobile downloads. This is the age of the conglomerates, with...
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By John Shakespeare Dyson | March 9, 2019
The concert by the group Dolapdere Big Gang at the Jolly Joker Club in Balo Sokak, Beyoğlu on March 1 was my first experience of attending a pop concert on behalf of
Cornucopia. I should hasten to point out that my reluctance to deal with the popular music scene in...
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...and 'Black Sea' is Best Travel and Food Book of the Year
By Cornucopia UK | March 6, 2019
The top sellers on the latest list from Cornucopia Bookshop sees John Freely’s
Stamboul Ghosts: A Stroll through Bohemian Istanbul way out in front. This is unsurprising, as Freely was such a popular figure and a masterful guide to Istanbul, with many books to his credit. The London launch at...
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Roger Fenton’s pictures getting a full showing for the first time
By Cornucopia UK | February 28, 2019
These photograph of Ottoman commanders (Ismael Pasha receiving his
chibouque, left, and Ömer Pasha, right) are from 360 taken by Roger Fenton in
Crimea and now on show at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, as part of the exhibition
Russia, Royals and the Romanovs (until Sunday, April 28, 2019).
Shadows...
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By John Shakespeare Dyson | February 18, 2019
The latest in the 2018–19 series of İstanbul Recitals was given by the American pianist Andrew Tyson at the Seed, the concert hall attached to the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Emirgan, on Friday February 15. As was the case with last month’s recital, the weather was cold, wet and windy....
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Jamie Leptien on the Pera Museum’s homage to Parajanov
By Jamie Leptien | February 9, 2019
Sergei Parajanov’s ‘Repentance (Variations on themes by Pinturicchio and Raphael)’, 1989 (courtesy of the Pera Museum) Occupying the fourth and fifth floors of Istanbul’s Pera Museum until March 17,
Parajanov with Sarkis is an...
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Musical Shares: Gilad Atzmon, Sarp Maden and Friends play Istanbul’s newest jazz venue
By John Shakespeare Dyson | February 3, 2019
The Gilad Atzmon / Sarp Maden Quartet – with Gilad Atzmon (above) on saxophone, Sarp Maden on guitar, Ercüment Orkut on piano, Eylem Pelit on bass guitar and Derin Bayhan on drums – performed in a curtain-raising event at Istanbul's new jazz club Touché, located beside the PSM (Performance Arts...
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Find us this week at LARTA, the fabulous antique rug and textile art fair in Battersea Park
By Cornucopia | January 23, 2019
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You can find Cornucopia at LARTA, the London Antique Rugs and Textile Arts Fair, this week, marooned in a lagoon of glorious textiles in Battersea. LARTA shares the Battersea Park venue with the Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair. The two fairs continue until Sunday. E-tickets are available to subscribers (write...
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The bright and melancholy photographs of Stefano Benazzo
By Cornucopia | January 19, 2019
In the Rahmi M Koç Museum on the Golden Horn, an institution that has rescued so many from the wrecker's yard, it is salutary lesson to see what might have been: vessels that have succumbed to the vicissitudes of time and tempest. Stefano Benazzo – photographer, sculptor, model maker (both...
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The Levantine adventures of an Italian small-town lawyer
By Cornucopia UK | January 17, 2019
Author John Mole set the clock back to the times of Chaucer in his Anglo-Turkish Society/Royal Anthropological Institute lecture in Bloomsbury last night as he described a pilgrimage to the Monastery of St Catherine in Egypt and the holy sites of Jerusalem undertaken by an Italian lawyer. So short in...
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Weaving order into chaos: the kilims of Belkıs Balpınar
By Cornucopia | January 17, 2019
In New York's Ethan Cohen Gallery opens its first solo exhibition of her work, the Turkish textile artist, Belkıs Balpınar, pioneer of the contemporary art kilim, asks her weavers to defy gravity, and space, by introducing curvilinear shapes and vortexes into her flatweave designs. In this short essay the gallery...
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By John Shakespeare Dyson | January 17, 2019
After a hiatus caused by a stay in delectable Tameside for the run-up to the festive season, I am back in Istanbul. On Saturday, January 12 I braved the appalling weather (almost as cold, wet and dismal as Manchester in August) to listen to a recital by Freddy Kempf (pictured...
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The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) names Cornucopia title
‘Best Book of the Year’
By Roger Williams | January 13, 2019
Cornucopia Books has taken its place in publishing history by winning the 2019 Felicia A. Holton Book Award, the top award from the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Society for Classical Studies. Described as a ‘major work of nonfiction, representing the importance and excitement of archaeology to the...
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