nobody remembers the ottomans
September 28, 2024 3:23 AM   Subscribe

This is the first exhibition in the world based on Frida Kahlo's diaries combining the physical and digital world [fridakahlo.it, also see g arts&culture (previously)]

by request; Istanbul (previously Constantinople:)

Midnight at Pera Palace, mosque, homes are being constructed in unusually close collaboration with their future residents [bloomberg], little birdhouses, Kedi's catstantinople w/ladders, glitter. The city’s magnificence and its chaos, blurring together just beyond, flowers, neolithic footprints, yaybahar, cortex, l’immortelle, imperial kitchen (wayback), train, xmas, football, Taksim, #occupygezi, tarihi osmanlı macunu (aka traditional Ottoman candy), early (& more current) photos (& postcards), secret Armenians (wayback), {[sephardicstudies: 1920] why they'd change it, can't say, maybe:} nutmeg?,
Ferit Orhan Pamuk, music, ebrû, Europe, au soleil, Flaubert, hippie trail, kebab, shoe in, Mimar Sinan, Hrant Dink, byzantine, mosaic, cyrillic, topkapai, travel

[tripadvisor:] keyif
posted by HearHere (6 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
Come again?
posted by rabia.elizabeth at 7:33 AM on September 28 [2 favorites]


sure :)

i posted about New York recently (the first link below the fold) & the history went far back enough to mention New Amsterdam. there's a song that riffs on this novelty (European colonization of the Americas under the banner of 'new' names, New Sweden was a thing for a bit, etc.) [wiki2]. the song references the name change of Istanbul, so Abehammerb Lincoln requested a post on this city.

i found there's a Frida Kahlo exhibit opening there soon, that's the FPP. many other people have posted about Istanbul previously, so i wove together those threads, below the fold, in the same way i did with the Kahlo threads above, previously
posted by HearHere at 8:17 AM on September 28 [2 favorites]


oh wow this exhibit looks sooooooo amazing. I just told mr supermedusa we need to go to Istanbul right now!! (its a city i have longed to visit for my whole life and hopefully will in a few years when we "retire". so much history!! art!!! food!!!! culture!!! beautiful people!!! CATS!!!!!!)
posted by supermedusa at 10:35 AM on September 28 [1 favorite]


It's nobody's business but the Turks', after all.
posted by lhauser at 12:26 PM on September 28 [1 favorite]


flagged for fantastic.
posted by clavdivs at 1:17 PM on September 28 [1 favorite]


nobody remembers the ottomans

JD Vance does.
posted by Calvin and the Duplicators at 8:30 PM on September 28 [1 favorite]


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