Thomas Murray Online Exhibition: Sumbanese Textiles
A special exhibition of textiles from Sumba, curated by Thomas Murray and drawing from his extensive collection, is now online.
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‘Artful Weavings’ in San Francisco
Peter Pap will present highly collectible weavings from four well-known and important US private collections at two venues in San Francisco in February.
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Asian Art in London 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.
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Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural, Oxford
In HALI 189, the Yousef Jameel Curator of Islamic Art at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford,Francesca Leoni introduces the landmark exhibition, ‘Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural’, showing there from 20 October 2016 until 15 January 2017.
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From the Lands of Asia
An unusual exhibition opens in Canada at the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History in November 2016.
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Opus Anglicanum at the V&A, London
‘Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery’ opens on 1 October at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Read an excerpt of the co-curators’ introduction from HALI 189.
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North African textiles in Florence
From 3 September at Villa Romana, Florence will be an exhibition of some 25 North African textiles from the private collections of Renate Anna Menzel and Paul Vandenbroeck.
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Ancient Andean Textiles at Yale University Art Gallery
‘Weaving and the Social World: 3,000 Years of Ancient Andean Textiles’ is open at Yale University Art Gallery until 18 September 2016. Woven tunics, mantles and wall hangings as well as related feather, gold and silver objects, tools and ceramics ranging in date from 900 BCE to the 16th century CE are on loan from two private collections.
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Phulkari exhibition, Turin
Phulkari from the private collection of Guido and Aldo Accornero Lazzarino were exhibited at the Museo d’Arte Orientale di Torino in Italy, 14 April – 15 May 2016.
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From HALI 187: Tales of Far Magic, Unrolled…
More than nine metres long, The British Museum’s ‘Cloth of Vrindavan’ is the focus of the current exhibition ‘Krishna in the Garden of Assam’.
