‘Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats’, an unmissable loan exhibition of some fifty dazzling silk robes and panels from the collection of the late Murad Megalli, is now open at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas until 4 June 2017.
A special exhibition of textiles from Sumba, curated by Thomas Murray and drawing from his extensive collection, is now online.
A spectacular votive embroidery will go under the hammer at Bonhams Hong Kong on 29 November 2016.
The ten-day annual event Asian Art in London, 3-12 November 2016, unites dealers, auction houses and societies in a series of selling exhibitions, auctions, receptions, lectures and seminars complimented by museum exhibitions.
An unusual exhibition opens in Canada at the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History in November 2016.
Elena Papastavrou will speak on Orthodox church embroideries at King’s College London on 25 October 2016.
A selection of works from the 15th edition of one of the world’s most important tribal art fairs, Parcours des Mondes in Saint-Germain-Des-Prés, Paris, 6-11 September.
Daniel Shaffer introduces an online exhibition and sale of Iban Dayak textiles from Borneo, collected during the 1970s and 1980s by the peripatetic tribal art collector/dealer Thomas Murray.
Tribal Art London, at the prestigious Mall Galleries from 1-4 September 2016, is the UK’s only fair devoted exclusively to authentic works of world art of all periods, from the ancient to the contemporary.
A selection of oriental carpets, textiles and tapestries, antique and contemporary, as well as tribal art, seen on exhibitors’ stands at this year’s Olympia Fair.
