In this, the closing concert of the Festival, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Tenan, accompanies the Slovak Philharmonic Choir and soloists Claudia Pavone (soprano), ...

The Italian-Slovenian pianist Alexander Gadjiev, renowned for his ‘improvisatory instincts’, plays Mussorgsky’s 1874 Pictures at an Exhibition while Turkish dancer Yaman Okur, a world-champion ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursThe arts diary Cornucopia’s choice. Contributors: John Shakespeare Dyson, Alexandra de Cramer and Monica Fritz Highlights Online Connoisseur Performance Talks and ...

Kuzucan returns to Galerist with an intriguing wrap-around show in which abstract paintings deal with dualities as emptiness and fullness, light and shadow, negative and positive space. He has ...

Although the subject of émigrés from the former Russian Empire in Constantinople/Istanbul has been studied extensively, the lives and works of Russian-speaking émigré artists in early 20th-century ...

Unforced Errors, Coincidences and Lost Years marked Toygun Özdemir’s fifth solo exhibition at Öktem Aykut Gallery, featuring a carefully curated collection of 22 works created over the past three ...

Don McCullin and his wife, Catherine Fairweather, take in the dramtic view at dawn as our new travelling companion and local Hüseyin Bey nonchalantly strolls, feeling very much at home on the fire ...

Iris paradoxa by the acclaimed botanical artist Işık Güner graces the cover of Issue 67. Güner is currently leading a team of 89 botanical artists creating the new Illustrated Flora of Turkey – a ...

Cornucopia: Turkey for ConnoisseursFrom Shadows to Light An exhibition of objects in storage ...

A friend once confessed the frustration of setting a story in Istanbul, a city where not even the past stands still. The place you think you should start is never the place you actually start – and ...

Intense and sustained research focussed on a well-defined, circumscribed region, across several decades and through numerous archaeological and palaeoenvironmental projects has created a uniquely rich ...

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 ...