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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On April 14 I went to the Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall to attend a recital by the young Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev. Born in 2001 and currently resident in Berlin, he first came to prominence ...

Özlem Sarıtaş will present a talk about the development of caprine and cattle herding and suid husbandry in central Anatolia, which is a long and potentially complex process, at Boncuklu Höyük and Can ...

Atatürk Cultural Centre / Atatürk Kültür Merkezi (AKM), Gümüşsuyu Mah., Mete Cad. No 2 (i.e., Taksim Square), Beyoğlu, 34437 Istanbul This is the first concert of the 2nd Ceren Necipoğlu Istanbul ...

St Anthony’s College, 62 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6JF Visiting Syrian musician, Ibrahim Muslimani, and Oxford Maqam, the UK’s most prominent Arab Classical Music ensemble are giving a concert at ...

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 ...

Marmara Island, source of Proconnesian marble that covers the walls of Ayasofya, is a surprisingly remote place given that it is quite so close to Istanbul, and so easy to get to. In 3 hours you are ...

After years of construction, the new Afyonkarahisar Archaeological Museum certainly exceeds long-awaited expectations. Founded in 1933, it was originally located in the historic city centre of ...