The 2024 İKSV Istanbul Music Festival – the 52nd in the series – opened with a concert at the Atatürk Cultural Centre on May 21. As usual, the proceedings began with speeches by administrators ...

This recital is to be given by pianist Ferhat Can Büyük, trained in Istanbul and Poland, who in 2020 won first prize in the solo piano category of the ‘Musica Classica’ Festival in Moscow, an event ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘After the revolution of 1821, some Greeks continued to serve Ottoman Sultans in such positions as doctor, banker or photographer to the Sultan, or as diplomats. The Ecumenical Patriarch, who had ...

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 ...

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

Hannah Stevenson will be exhibiting her paintings as part of the Ulysses European Odyssey event’s ‘Ulysse’s Istanbul’ at Tesvikiye’s 44a Gallery. Only five days to purchase a stunning abstract ...

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 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, ...

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 ...